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Re: trusting .deb packages

From	Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: trusting .deb packages
Date	2018-07-25 17:40 +0200
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On 25/07/18 23:52, Darac Marjal wrote:
>> I'm not sure you understand how Debian works, then. Debian is a 
>> political animal as much as it is technical. There was a
>> technical requirement for a better init system, so there was a
>> political process to decide what that would be (I say political
>> because, although there was a technical committee making the
>> decision, opinions were sought from the user base, so there was
>> the possibility of minds being swayed). When the decision to use
>> systemd was achieved, Debian went down the road of preferring
>> that as the init system.

I understand perfectly well, your understanding is shared by many, but
so too is mine.  There absolutely was NOT a need for a different and
flawed init system, ABSOLUTELY NOT!

A.
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trusting .deb packages Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-24 17:50 +0200
  Re: trusting .deb packages Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-07-24 18:50 +0200
    Re: trusting .deb packages Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-24 20:00 +0200
    Re: trusting .deb packages john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-07-24 20:40 +0200
      Re: trusting .deb packages Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-07-25 07:50 +0200
        Re: trusting .deb packages john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-07-25 11:40 +0200
    Re: trusting .deb packages Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-24 23:50 +0200
      Re: trusting .deb packages Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-07-25 04:40 +0200
        Re: trusting .deb packages Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-25 04:40 +0200
          Re: trusting .deb packages Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-07-25 05:20 +0200
          Re: trusting .deb packages Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-25 05:40 +0200
        Re: trusting .deb packages Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-07-25 07:50 +0200
      Re: trusting .deb packages Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-07-25 08:00 +0200
        Re: trusting .deb packages Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-07-25 16:00 +0200
          Re: trusting .deb packages Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-07-25 17:40 +0200
            Re: trusting .deb packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-07-25 17:50 +0200
  Re: trusting .deb packages Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-25 00:00 +0200
    Re: trusting .deb packages Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-25 02:30 +0200
      Re: trusting .deb packages Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-25 03:10 +0200
        Re: trusting .deb packages Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-07-25 03:40 +0200

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