walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop everything > and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything from scratch. > > But I have a feeling I'd soon be in big trouble if I did. Is this > something that only gentoo devs should be messing with, or is this > a project that a typical gentoo end-user might hope to accomplish > without frequent suicidal thoughts?
I'm using hardened-profile and hardened sources for many years on a stable gentoo system. I don't have any binary packages installed. Everything works fine. No headache and no suicidal tendencies so far. There is a ML for gentoo-hardened (gentoo-harde...@lists.gentoo.org). I think it would be a good idea to ask the guys there, because some of them have a very deep knowledge of the underlaying technique. -- Regards wabe