Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
> So, I have to identify which ones are exactly broken (Stuart Henderson > said this is the trickier part), contact their developers (if the > software is not abandoned) and send patches, right? Your approach of making the world better will be "getting in their face"? You have some sort of list.

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-27 Thread mazocomp
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 08:12:11PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I think you have interpreted the situation backwards. > > The wxallowed flag is not on other filesystems. Therefore, binaries > on those filesystems which misbehave will fail. > > There are about 15 programs which need fixing, and

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
I think you have interpreted the situation backwards. The wxallowed flag is not on other filesystems. Therefore, binaries on those filesystems which misbehave will fail. There are about 15 programs which need fixing, and the wxallowed could become a piece of history. Unfortunately some of those

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-26 Thread mazocomp
Well, I've just checked python's port and created a package without USE_WXNEEDED and it works pretty well. How about I'll send a patch to ports@ which will create "wx" or "no_wx" flavor?

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:52:10PM +0200, mazocomp wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:28:00PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:56:15PM +0200, mazocomp wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Is this a really good idea to keep wxallowed flag on /usr/local by > > > default? Is this so s

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-26 Thread Solène Rapenne
Le 2018-01-26 12:52, mazocomp a écrit : On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:28:00PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:56:15PM +0200, mazocomp wrote: > Hi! > > Is this a really good idea to keep wxallowed flag on /usr/local by > default? Is this so scary that many poop software will brea

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-26 Thread mazocomp
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:28:00PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:56:15PM +0200, mazocomp wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is this a really good idea to keep wxallowed flag on /usr/local by > > default? Is this so scary that many poop software will break (this is > > not a big loss at

Re: wxallowed flag

2018-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:56:15PM +0200, mazocomp wrote: > Hi! > > Is this a really good idea to keep wxallowed flag on /usr/local by > default? Is this so scary that many poop software will break (this is > not a big loss at all)? After all not enabling this flag by default is > the right thing