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From: | Aaron Bentley |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more) |
Date: | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:30:22 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040309) |
Ron Parker wrote:
I vaguely recall someone requesting aliases stored in {arch} at one point and I would be against that (at least in naive form). It could limit competition and create some form of central authority.
I don't see that as a form of central authority. In fact, neither do you, because you present the 'security-risk' argument.
Even worse there would be the potential for a foreign changeset to redirect the alias to a different archive, which I would consider somewhat of asecurity issue,
See, if *anyone*'s foreign changeset can change your "{arch}/=aliases", you've got anarchy, not central authority. Central authorities are bad when they have powers not granted to the peons, but if any Tom, Jim or Bob can change the =aliases, that doesn't apply here.
My implementation of tree-local aliases has +aliases superceding =aliases, if present.
I suppose a way around the security issue is to *always* have an +aliases, and require the user to do something to copy aliases from =aliases to +aliases.
Aaron -- Aaron Bentley Director of Technology Panometrics, Inc.
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