cvs commit: ports/multimedia/xine Makefile

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Mar 30 08:23:41 PST 2004


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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