From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult.de>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: src.zip, demos and samples in java idk
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 16:04:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn05krk0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57CA731E.3060900@goebel-consult.de> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sat, 3 Sep 2016 08:52:14 +0200")
Hi,
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult.de> skribis:
> I discovered that the "jdk" of icedtea includes "demos", "samples" and
> even a "src.zip" file. These are as big as 50 MB, where the src.zip
> contributes by 43 MB. Thee 50MB are ca. 12% of the whole jdk.
>
> IMHO, all of these should not be there since they are rarely needed.
> Also it is common security best-practice to *not* include any demo code
> on production systems - which should at least followed by such large
> packages. The reasoning is that demos and examples are often prone to
> errors and offering attack points.
>
> Shall I move these to "doc" or to a new output (e.g. "examples").
It would make sense to move them to “doc”, indeed; we’ve done it in
other packages.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-03 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-03 6:52 src.zip, demos and samples in java idk Hartmut Goebel
2016-09-03 12:25 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-03 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-09-16 14:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
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