[sclug] Gentoo...

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Sun Nov 28 20:32:07 UTC 2004


On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 08:14:44PM +0000, Darren Davison wrote:
> However, nothing forces you to upgrade or re-compile any piece of
> software that you don't wish to unless it's a hard dependency of
> something you ARE upgrading, and the tools are capable enough to cope
> with any and all

How does Gentoo deal with security in that case then?  Is it possible to
say "recompile all the packages with security exploits (and their
dependencies)"?

Simon

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