[Bug 217844] devel/gvfs

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Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to q5sys from comment #0)
> Due to the wikileaks dump of Vault7, we know there is a 0-day against HALd. 
> Since HALd is mostly unused on the linux side, its very unlikely that it
> will get patched since most distros are using systemd now.
> 
> gvfs can build without HAL support.  I ran gvfs-lite on linux for quite a
> while back in the days that I was a linux distro dev.
> 
> Should we disable hal in gvfs for this reason?  I realize that some programs
> that rely on gvfs with hal will loose some functionality, so it comes down
> to the issue of what's more important.  Security or Features.  
> 
> I personally side with security, but this isn't my port, so it's not my
> choice to decide.

Wouldn't this question be better directed at HAL; or rather,
sysutils/hal?

IOW why target ports that use HAL, when (apparently) HAL
is the problem?

Just my 0.2¢ on the matter. :-)

--Chris

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