[ILUG] Ximian on Debian Potato

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "MM" == Mark McLoughlin <mark at skynet.ie> writes:

    MM> On 26 Apr 2001, Paul J Collins wrote:
    >> >>>>> "JW" == Jerry Walsh <jerry at aardvark.ie> writes:
    JW> This is going off track, the go-gnome installer is insecure it
    JW> makes no attempt to BE secure.
    >> Since the script no longer appears to be available, I have been
    >> unable to download it and inspect it for myself.

    MM> I think the point is that you don't know that the script hasn't been
    MM> tampered with.

That's the point I was trying make, as part of my point that you could
trust the packages no more than the script not to do something nasty.

I took Jerry's comment quoted above to refer to the script itself and
not its method of distribution.

<snip>
    MM> They could have made their installation instructions a
    MM> *little* bit harder and saved themselves the effort.

The only time I installed Helix GNOME, I did it with apt-get.  Using
Helix GNOME was a distant second behind upgrading to unstable, but
doing that is not very practical over a modem, alas.  I have a plan,
however.

Let's face it, you can't trust any software you didn't write
yourself.  See you in five years.  I'm off to write an operating
system and mailreader.

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