Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: GPL stuff with binary modules - FSF ruling

2006-06-30 Thread Ned Ludd
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:26 +0300, Alex Efros wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:08:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Heads up to nvidia users... If you use nvidia-glx and a hardened profile > > > it's going to be package.masked > > does it have to be that drastic? how about CONF

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: GPL stuff with binary modules - FSF ruling

2006-06-30 Thread Ned Ludd
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 13:08 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 29 Jun 2006 at 18:42, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > How you you/we feel about p.masking nvidia-glx and friends in the > > > > hardened profiles? They do nothing but cause us heartache anyway and > > > > we are mostly powerless to fix them

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: GPL stuff with binary modules - FSF ruling

2006-06-30 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:26:58 +0300 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think users should decide which level of security they need. Choice > between 'don't use hardened' or 'don't use nvidia drivers' sounds very > undesirable. Indeed, however I think we should be providing a hardened profil

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: GPL stuff with binary modules - FSF ruling

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Efros
Hi! On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:08:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Heads up to nvidia users... If you use nvidia-glx and a hardened profile > > it's going to be package.masked > does it have to be that drastic? how about CONFIG_CHECK="~PAX_NOELFRELOCS" > in the ebuilds? I think users shou

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: GPL stuff with binary modules - FSF ruling

2006-06-30 Thread pageexec
On 29 Jun 2006 at 18:42, Ned Ludd wrote: > > > How you you/we feel about p.masking nvidia-glx and friends in the > > > hardened profiles? They do nothing but cause us heartache anyway and > > > we are mostly powerless to fix them unless we are willing to spend a > > > a lot of time reverse enginee

[gentoo-hardened] Re: GPL stuff with binary modules - FSF ruling

2006-06-29 Thread Ned Ludd
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 22:27 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:19:10 -0400 > Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How you you/we feel about p.masking nvidia-glx and friends in the > > hardened profiles? They do nothing but cause us heartache anyway and > > we are mostly po