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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:47:34PM +0200, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> >
> > So the question is : do you want
> > some/all of these features in devel, and which ones ?
> >
> 
> There are some problems with security/hardened patches. The big one is 
> that usually they are not updated immediately with new version of 
> applications. So you can choose up-to-date version of application or its 
> stale version with security patch. Of course some users prefer new 
> version another prefer "secure" version.
> If we integrate these security features into normal grimoire we will 
> have to add next VERSIONs into DETAILS of spells. Stable, devel, cvs and 
> for example selinux version.
> We need more developers for it. It is easy to add security patch to 
> apllication once or twice. But  keep them up-to-date and test them with 
> all options it is a lot of work.

Agreed for the most part.  We want to keep stuff that doesn't require 
patches/version separation mainline, and we can keep "hardened" going 
off to the side until the patches get integrated into the mainline 
if/when they do.

Or we can make a spell-hardened spell with the lower version and setup 
providers if it becomes a small enough grimoire as to not make sense 
separately.

Seth

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