Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:20:54 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <20010711112054.D93534@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3B4B33DA.242EFDDC@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:56:58AM -0700 References: <200107100731.f6A7VxR05700@panix1.panix.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107100439380.67797-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <20010710125613.A51035@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B4B33DA.242EFDDC@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Jul 10, 2001 at 09:56:58: > > Also, you should be aware that in commercial deployment, > having a compiler on board the system is often considered > a bad thing, as it permits entre to exploiters bringing > their own programs onto the system. I've seen people disable compilers before, but I haven't understood how it helps. You can compile elsewhere and bring the binary onto the system, can't you? Unless the system is some extremely rare OS or doesn't ship with a compiler at all -- neither of which is true of FreeBSD. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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