Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/xine Makefile

From: Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus_at_marcuscom.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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    To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:24:06 -0500

    On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 04:13, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
    > Michael Nottebrock wrote:
    >
    > > [...]
    > > However, it seems to me that marking ports FORBIDDEN for security
    > > reasons is more or less obsoleted (and made redundant) by
    > > portaudit/VuXML and committers having to hand-scan VuXML for updates and
    > > mark ports FORBIDDEN by hand just seems like duplicated (and
    > > error-prone) work... so maybe it's time to to away with marking ports
    > > FORBIDDEN for security reasons completely?
    >
    > I think portmgr@ is the authority here. CC'ed.

    Since VuXML is still optional, and newbies will not be likely to have
    it, I believe we still should be marking ports FORBIDDEN for security
    reasons. Better to wear a belt and suspenders.

    Joe 

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