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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#37445: 27.0.50; Permission denied after make install |
Date: | Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:33:20 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 |
On 9/20/19 11:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
If we want to make such changes, we should do that in a way that caters to all the use cases we support today.
Of course. Among other things we should continue to let people access the sources where they were originally built, if that's what they want to do. But the default installation should be a safe one.
If it is considered to be too much to install the C source files by default, we can simply make that an installation option with default off; that will still be safe, since find-function-C-source-directory will do the right thing when the source files are not installed. However, I'm mildly inclined to install the source files by default since they don't grow the installation size that much: on my platform the current default installation is 144 MiB, and the relevant source files are 8.6 MiB uncompressed, 2.5 MiB compressed (these counts include filesystem overhead).
I asked what security problems could be caused by accessing a source tree
I'll reply separately about that.
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