Re: samba-essential upgrade or remove?

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger+oe@freyther.de>]

On Monday 15 March 2010 15:58:17 Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:

> > See. This is not the point of liking or not liking a given recipe. I
> > don't like the fact that this recipe is not maintained for years and has
> > the possibility of damaging the reputation of distros built with OE. I
> > assume even users of SlugOS do not like if their device gets owned via
> > known and circulating exploits?
> 
> I think the chances are small that anyone would put a slug on the open
> internet.

Well, at least here in Taiwan people get a pool of public IP addresses and 
everything behind the main switch of a flat has a public address.


> Note that this might go a lot further than you think.
> It also means keeping things like php, python and perl up to date as
> people could exploit bugs in php code or cgi scripts.

Yes, I upgraded php5, python didn't need an upgrade, perl is going to be 
upgraded...  It is not like that I'm asking to create a security team and do 
code audits... All I ask for is to go to here[1] and update software in time. 
It is not like we need to update stuff every day... if we as a community can't 
do something as simple as that people should use stuff from people that can do 
that.

[1] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/index.html