[Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Horst Herb wrote:

> > Please klik this to boost your performance:
> >
> >  klick://somewhere-nice.org/lose-all-your-files.elf
>
> same as deb ftp://somewhere-nice.org/ ...
> or rpm -i lose-all-your-files.elf ...
>
> It doesn't really differ from any other type of binary download in terms of
> security. If you don't trust the source, don't do it.
>
> But since the majority of users are installing software on single user
> systems, it might even have a slight advantage by installing in user space as
> that user - in the very worst case, you lose the contents of your home
> directory, but not more

Well, this is right on one hand.  But I would love if people who install
somewhere-nice.org would start working together with Debian and put their
good stuff to a trusted source (debian.org).  If their stuff is not considered
worth to be moved to debian.org I do not want this stuff on my computer.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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