Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Adam Williamson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:18:55 -0700
> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora
>     <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Expanding the list of "Hardened Packages"
> 
> On 31/03/13 08:11 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
>> However prelink does reduce the effectiveness of ASLR (a bit).  See
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/341440/ and follow-up conversation.
>
> Ignoring the silly stuff, it does seem that this is Yet Another Reason 
> Prelink Is Bad, and we seem to keep bumping up against those. It does 
> rather seem like we should consider just killing it, at least by default.
>

At this point I have the feeling that Prelink is a cargo cult which we 
keep around to appease the Airplane Gods.

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Stephen John Smoogen
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