* 'cduck' Chris Grierson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > what my real concern is, is whether or not my entire system is mangled > because of situations like this -- i generally have my systems installed > via snagging a list of packages from one machine and installing them all > at the same time (dpkg -i *.deb) after they have all been downloaded. if > this type of problem arose with j2sdk1.3 and mozilla, what else should i > be expecting for more ... complex packages/groups of packages?
You're trusting the maintainers to make bug-free packages just like you're trusting software authors to write programs without buffer overflows, backdoors and what have you. Since maintainers|programmers are human, sometimes bugs slip through. You can live with that, or you can consider the alternative: compiling and installing everything manually (and, to be logical and consistent, also writing all the software yourself). Dima -- I have not been able to think of any way of describing Perl to [person] "Hello, blind man? This is color." -- DPM
