Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside (12021-05-19): > Why would a package I get from a git repository be supportable but a > package I save some packaging time and get from another source (Kali, > Ubuntu for example) would become unsupportable ?
Because the shortcut that allows you to save some time is (1) a very privileged part of the system and (2) full of pitfalls. If you install something in /opt and do it incompetently but not too much, you cannot break your system. At worst, you break what you were installing. If you install a package that was done incompetently but not too much, through the interactions of dependencies, it can cause all kinds of problems. In particular it can cause important security updates to be blocked to preserve the possibly unimportant package. Oh, and, if you know enough about the packaging system to create your own packages without causing this kind of problems, then I do not need to explain that to you, you know this already. So yeah. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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