Re: Proposal, again: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 05:18:34PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Le 26/09/2019 à 17:15, Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 05:10:01PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > > issues for a clearly marginal use case, and given the current general
> >           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > This is where we dissagree. You guess it's marginal but there's no
> > evidence of that (and there's no evidence of the opposite either).
> 
> Can you provide evidence that it is used by the majority of the users?

As I said I don't have evidence either way

> And that therefore keeping vulnerabilities for 100% of the people is
> legitimate?

I never said it is. What I'm saying is that your claim about very few peoples
using the compat modules may be wrong. This is different.

(and to make it clear: I don't care if modules autoload or not; I'm not using
modules).

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