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> On 27 May 2010 20:37, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> Squeak was recently removed from Gentoo Linux Ebuilds because of security issues in our bundled plugins:
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>>        http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247363
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>> While it is convenient for us to bundle external library sources, package maintainers do not like that practice. Is there anything we can realistically do about it?
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> Here's my argument:
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> These libraries are bundled, because Squeak VM could be built on a
> system which having no such libraries provided by default.
> To ensure bit-identical behavior on all platforms, Squeak developers
> cannot rely on a platform-specific versions of these libraries,
> because they can vary from one system to another.
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