Re: Security testing: need for a security policy, and a security-critical package process

[Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> > > I don't want to ship a desktop that doesn't let the user do useful
> > > things.
> >
> > And you can ship a desktop SPIN that way. But the base pkgs should
> > not install with an insecure set of choices.
> >
> > if you want the spin to have a post-scriptlet which allows more
> > things, then that's the choice of the desktop sig over the desktop
> > spin.
>
> Given how .pkla works, this is likely to be done with packages, not
> with %post hackery. (Which should make it much easier to reliably
> test, as well.)

provided those pkgs are not required anywhere or set in our default pkg 
groups, then sure.

-sv

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