Re: IRC

From	Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: IRC
Date	2021-05-19 20:30 +0200
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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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Re: IRC Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-19 19:00 +0200
  Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 19:40 +0200
    Re: IRC Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-19 20:10 +0200
      Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 20:20 +0200
        Re: IRC Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-05-19 20:30 +0200
          Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 21:10 +0200
        Re: IRC Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-19 20:30 +0200
          Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 21:10 +0200
          Re: IRC Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-05-19 21:30 +0200
            Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 21:50 +0200
        Re: IRC Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-19 20:40 +0200
          Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 20:50 +0200
            Re: IRC Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-05-19 21:00 +0200
          Re: IRC Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-05-19 22:20 +0200
    Re: IRC Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-19 21:10 +0200
      Re: IRC Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-05-19 21:20 +0200

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