# Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2024-04-12) # No. app-admin/sudo # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2024-02-29) # Screw language-specific package managers, none of them do proper reviews # Only exceptions so far are the ones where packaging in gentoo is # either insane or incomplete such as: # - npm and others using npmjs.org # - dev-elixir/hex dev-python/pip dev-lua/luarocks dev-ml/opam dev-scheme/akku dev-util/conan # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2024-02-14) # Qt release pace for a chromium fork, effectively a forever: # Has security bugs don't use dev-qt/qtwebengine # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2024-01-30) # Non-uniform small-keyspace crackable passwords by default # See https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/17/5 app-admin/pwgen # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2024-01-18) # Nobody should use imake anymore, X moved off from it in 2005. # https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2024-January/003440.html x11-misc/imake # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2023-08-08) # https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/surprising-behavior-in-gnu-tar/ app-arch/tar # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier (2023-07-25) # Dead upstream, known vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-42260) # Author switched to tinyxml2 dev-libs/tinyxml # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2023-07-09 # Binaries dev-lang/go-bootstrap # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2023-02-03 # No bootstrapping, would need a way to bootstrap dev-lang/fpc dev-lang/nim # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2023-01-30 # No bootstrapping, you're supposed to download the blobs from npmjs.org # which isn't trustworthy dev-lang/typescript # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2018-12-27 # Bloated, quite insecure (too much trust in other apps, more than paging) # alternative can be sys-apps/most, see virtual/pager for others sys-apps/less # https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/ # TL;DR: Audacity is now a Surveillance application media-sound/audacity # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2022-02-05 # Unmaintained, last update in 2016, 2021 is because Arthur Zamarin of gentoo # made a small fork with few patches on top. # Also: https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/263602.html - PyPI is not trustworthy dev-python/nose # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2022-06-02 # Unmaintained, last tarball in 2010, last git update in 2015 # Contains data like IANA which should be kept up-to-date regularly sys-apps/miscfiles # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2022-07-11 # Dead upsteam, last updated in 2003 # Known security bugs, effectively vague fork by distros media-libs/id3lib # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2022-07-11 # Dead upsteam, last release in 2016 media-sound/easytag # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2022-08-30 # Open-Core # https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/commit/8f386e15fdedff37486c683d933ccc9a1e307388 dev-util/cppcheck # Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier - 2022-12-20 # Non-conformant code in version 2022.3 (C++11 errors in Clang) # Requires full-copyight assignment for contributions media-libs/shaderc =games-action/supertuxkart-1.4-r1