Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line

[Jonathan T. <jt...@as...>]

On Sunday 07 March 2010, Petr Mikulik wrote:
[[about the postscript prologue]]
# Well, now it seems that now it contains
# SDict begin [
#   /Author (mikulik)
# instead of the previous
#   /Author (Petr Mikulik)
# Is this intended? Shouldn't the /Author line be completely avoided?

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> I don't know.
> There were two issues.
> 
> The static build issue was caused by a call to getpwnam(), which is now gone.
> 
> I suppose listing the user name is still an issue if you want complete
> anonymity, but it no longer includes GECOS information like phone number
> and address so I think it is not so much a privacy concern.

I would rather omit the /Author line entirely (or make it explicitly
configurable via a user option "set identification" (or suchlike)).

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