Moving w3m out of standard
James Dinkel
jdinkel at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 05:21:10 UTC 2008
While there is a lot here that I could debate till my fingers fall
off, I think one point by Soren actually sums up my concern pretty
well:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Soren Hansen <soren at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Given enough time, any software will prove to be insecure in
> some way
>
And that is a very good reason for keeping frivolous packages off the server.
I would also reiterate a subject Michael Hipp brought up in his last
email. That is that the concern here is not so much about w3m being
in the server seed, but that if such a useless package can make it
into the server seed, than what more feature creep will the future
bring. Keep in mind that I too am one that jumped ship from RHEL,
which apparently decided to take after MS and make a nice big leap in
bloated-by-default with RHEL 5. SuSe is the same way. So the thought
of another distro which I've favored, losing what it is that I favor
it for, is a little disheartening.
James
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