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diff --git a/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.0.21-gentoo.diff b/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.0.21-gentoo.diff new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7fe033552c82 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.0.21-gentoo.diff @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- coreutils.texi Sat Dec 8 11:13:57 2001 ++++ coreutils.texi.new Mon Mar 18 05:34:18 2002 +@@ -10614,33 +10614,6 @@ + + @end table + +-@cindex wheel group, not supported +-@cindex group wheel, not supported +-@cindex fascism +-@heading Why GNU @code{su} does not support the @samp{wheel} group +- +-(This section is by Richard Stallman.) +- +-@cindex Twenex +-@cindex MIT AI lab +-Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the +-rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to +-seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and +-keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup +-and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I +-wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.) +- +-However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual +-@code{su} mechanism, once someone learns the root password who +-sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The +-``wheel group'' feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the +-power of the rulers. +- +-I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are +-used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you +-might find this idea strange at first. +- +- + @node Delaying + @chapter Delaying + |