thoughts on modules-extra subpackage...

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:10:43PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:01:39PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  > > > And there is a long history of security bugs being found in the new
>  > > > and/or infrequently-used modules.
>  > > 
>  > > That's probably true.  I still wonder if that is common enough to be
>  > > worth the change.
>  > 
>  > I'm still of the opinion we should just turn them off.
> 
> I'm ok with turning off a lot of the stuff we have in -extras,
> and reenabling it if it turns out to be more popular than we realised.

Please don't turn-off sch_* or tcp_*!  But maybe if you turn everything
else off you can just move those back to the base kernel... :-)

John
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