From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Achim Gratz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing binaries with package.el Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:44:09 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87efz831ti.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <3fdcbe78-969e-f9e1-2a9d-a5f8494c35b3@mit.edu> <87o9ydlprf.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <26a71145-5c0b-faad-17f1-a34e741ed493@gmail.com> <87inok3472.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <877f50mqzj.fsf@hochschule-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486583097 31442 195.159.176.226 (8 Feb 2017 19:44:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 19:44:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 08 20:44:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cbYAc-0007kQ-Ce for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:44:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbYAi-0002FL-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51377) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbYAB-0002F4-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbYA8-0004IH-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55422 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbYA7-0004Hv-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cbY9z-0005rD-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:44:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xILQtZnXs73RcSNVQvr3BSZE03I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212149 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > Achim Gratz writes: > >> [...] wrapper scripts and/or compiling binaries [...] big can of worms > > But installing a regular package can execute arbitrary code already, > nothing would change. I know it can do almost anything, but it really shouldn't attempt anything of that sort. There should be a rule to not do such things, it's not what a user would expect from ELPA. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs