Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:10:25 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed 03 August 2011 17:44:08 Willie Wong did opine thusly: > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It's sensible really - portage is not the only package manager > > > out there and therefore should n

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:10:25 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed 03 August 2011 17:44:08 Willie Wong did opine thusly: > > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > It's sensible really - portage is no

[gentoo-user] [OT] NFSv4: 32-bit server versus 64-bit client?

2011-08-04 Thread walt
I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) (I'll mention up front that NFSv3 works per

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFSv4: 32-bit server versus 64-bit client?

2011-08-04 Thread Todd Goodman
* walt [110804 17:26]: > I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between > my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( > > After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from > using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) > > (I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Though it is silly IMHO that portage would want to remove itself > > with depclean. Could it not be hardcoded into portage that it > > should try to keep itself updated and not commit suicide? > > (Independently of the @system sets.

[gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Thanasis
I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's not a small app to build). Why is its code so, should I say prone to bugs, compared to other brow

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Thanasis wrote: > I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium > I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's > not a small app to build). > Why is it

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis wrote: > I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium > I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's > not a small app to build). > Why is its

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis wrote: >> I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium >> I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > At least one of the "multiple vulnerabilities" bugs linked to a Chrome > update notice which didn't list any vulnerabilities. (Well, except a > Flash update, which I didn't dig into) > > > -- > :wq > > M Flash. Now there is a nice and se

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Thanasis
on 08/05/2011 07:23 AM Adam Carter wrote the following: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis wrote: >> I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium >> I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Adam Carter
>> You've made an assumption there. > > Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox > that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so > often, I guess we should *not* feel more secure with it... The noscript firefox addon gives significant protecti

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > >> You've made an assumption there. > > > > Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox > > that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so > > often, I guess we should *not* feel more secure wi

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 Aug 2011 06:14:37 Adam Carter wrote: > >> You've made an assumption there. > > > > Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox > > that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so > > often, I guess we should *not* feel more secure with

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Thanasis
on 08/05/2011 08:44 AM Mick wrote the following: > On Friday 05 Aug 2011 06:14:37 Adam Carter wrote: >> The noscript firefox addon gives significant protection with only a >> little inconvenience. > > By "little inconvenience" you mean that most webpages will not show up > properly? These days