> For security reasons, I'd much rather the compiled version of anything that
> goes into the perl tree be done only at module install time with perhaps
> some mechanism to explicitly build (or rebuild) a bytecompiled version.
>
> Automagically dropping things into places that should be secure worries me.
> (And yes, I realize that you'd need write access to the directory to do it,
> so you're already vulnerable and all that, but... just because we hand
> someone a gun doesn't mean we need to load it and point it somewhere as well)
Hey, we'll just make perl suid root by default so that it can safely
compile every .p[lm] file into .p[lm]c files!!! Hey, why are all you
looking at me like that...?
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