[PLUG] Something to think about

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Sat Apr 10 20:02:01 UTC 2004


Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net> writes:

> There might be some application that is designed to run downloaded
> code that can be used on a Linux system,

Well, apt...

> but you'd have to be crazy to use it.

Well, depends.  If it's like apt, and you're using only specific
sources that you trust (like the Debian mirrors), then you are OK as
long as you stay on top of security advisories and don't do anything
insane like using cron or cron-apt to do more than just update the
package cache.

-- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo at ursine.ca>
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