From: Stuff Received <stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Generational development [was Re: Re: Early GUI on Linux]
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:20:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b7470aa-8d77-0733-6c37-af705cad835b@riddermarkfarm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4LHmv8ZMVbD5G8cEPG1HDQY_6wSNmcbV=UUoTpSiee1A@mail.gmail.com>
On 2023-02-27 17:17, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:06 PM KenUnix <ken.unix.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have they not heard of common sense? Whenever I get something from git I look through it to
>> check for something suspicious before using it and then and only then do I do make install.
>
> Up to what size? What about the dependencies? How about the compiler
> that compiles it all?
>
> I have a copy of the Linux kernel I checked out on my machine; it's
> many millions of lines of code; sorry, I haven't read all of that. I
> often install things using the operating system's package manager; I
> haven't read through all that code, either. Life's too short as it is!
Too true. I build in a restricted account but even so...
(Decades ago, I used Harald Alvestrand's TimeTracker but disabled his
UDP start-up announcer. Even though there is not much source, I never
would known about it had I not read the README.)
S.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-27 23:20 UTC|newest]
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2023-02-27 21:22 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-27 21:42 ` Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 22:01 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-27 23:23 ` Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 23:42 ` Larry McVoy
2023-02-28 0:29 ` Dan Cross
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2023-02-28 14:53 ` Chet Ramey
2023-02-28 15:25 ` Dan Cross
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2023-02-27 22:07 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Dan Cross
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2023-02-27 22:17 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-02-27 23:20 ` Stuff Received [this message]
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