Subject: Re: dependencies & security vulnerabilities
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/31/2005 05:13:49
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
>    ================================================================
>    | Proposal -- Nuke any RECOMMENDED used for security issues    |
>    |                                                              |
>    | I propose we just completely nuke all dependencies that are  |
>    | a result of "security vulnerability" issues and focus solely |
>    | on ABI issues.  This means getting rid of most of the        |
>    | BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.* and RECOMMENDED settings in pkgsrc.  |
>    ================================================================
>
> Comments?

Seconded.
I never was a friend of those gracious bumps (but obviously not everyone 
cared :-).


  - Hubert