thoughts on modules-extra subpackage...
Chuck Ebbert
cebbert at redhat.com
Wed Dec 7 16:18:02 UTC 2011
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:01:39 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> 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 know we have users who utilize the rose protocol, just for one example.
I don't think we can turn any of them off.
> At the same time, we should probably be a bit more judicious about
> enabling new drivers. They're normally not all that great in their
> first full release, so they should default to off until requested or
> proven otherwise.
But how can we tell unless we try them?
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