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Bug 661986

Summary: sys-apps/less: lesspipe.sh rendering HTML
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dominik Schmidt <gentoobugs>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: minor CC: jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Dominik Schmidt 2018-07-24 16:41:51 UTC
Recently, the lesspipe.sh script shipped inside /usr/portage  started rendering HTML automatically, if links or similar is installed.
I'd argue the point that this, whilst being a cool feature, is not the proper (default-)behaviour for a text pager, since it fundamentally alters what is contained in the file.
It also has security implications since it runs an HTML layout engine over potentially untrusted files.
Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2018-08-03 20:52:40 UTC
please write the package name in the summary.
see http://www.portagefilelist.de
do you mean dev-embedded/scratchbox?