Hi On 2021-05-19 2:24 p.m., Nicolas George wrote: > 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. >
I don't play around with base system packages. > 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. > Thanks for the message but like I already said, the packages I used for source are mostly because they save me time writing documentation that already got written. > Regards, > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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