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Re: Security through paranoia 2, with proposal...



On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:20:44PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Jan Niehusmann schrieb:
> > This is exactly what the depends-if clause is meant for: You can install
> > hardened without apache, but if you install apache, you must install
> > apache-ssl too.
> 
> Use Enhances: apache for apache-ssl. Adding even more fields to
> control files is a bad idea as long as more than half of the
> dependency fields are ignored by apt (Suggests, Recommends,
> Enhances).

Enhances? What is that? Is that used by any package handlers?

> Hardening things by default should be preferred wherever
> possible over making "hardened" a special case. I hate special
> cases.

Well that is true. But in some cases "hardening" is not what
people want. This is a help on how to do it.

Regards,

// Ola

> ciao, 2ri
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