On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:29:44PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Now if what you are telling me is : > That all software that I may run on my Linux box that are not inside the > Debian repository will make my system a "frankendebian" and will entitle > myself to be called off-topic and not worth having my message read, then > honestly, I'll simply stop reading mailing list and go on my own.
First of all, this is exactly the kind of attitude I was talking about, which we see *EXTREMELY FREQUENTLY* from Kali users especially. If you behave like this on any of the Debian IRC channels, you will get no help. Second, no, not all third-party software makes your system unsupportable. But *packages* that are installed from other distributions most certainly do. If you want to install third-party software, do so either by building upstream NON-PACKAGED sources and installing directly in /opt or /usr/local, or if you wish to use packages, use them only from trusted sources. That *especially* means no PPAs. (What counts as trusted? That's an open question, and pretty subjective. Except for the PPA part. Everyone agrees on those.) > If this is not a Debian question then tell my what it is ? These would be examples of Debian questions which an IRC channel could reasonably hope to answer: 1) "Why isn't virtualbox in Debian?" 2) "How should I install virtualbox on Debian release _____?" However, the following is *not*: 3) "I built a custom virtualbox package myself from Kali deb-src, and now I'm getting this error...." That's what we can't support. Especially in IRC, where questions should be short and easy, not involving 8-hour diagnostic marathons.
