From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 21607 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2023 23:20:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Feb 2023 23:20:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2D8432E1; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:20:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail1.sentex.ca (vmail1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.19]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30EAB432DD for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:20:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: (Haraka outbound); Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:20:44 -0500 Authentication-Results: vmail1.sentex.ca; auth=pass (plain) Received: from [10.0.1.25] (198.27.14-65.ip.mltn.standardbroadband.ca [198.27.14.65]) by vmail1.sentex.ca (Haraka/2.8.25) with ESMTPSA id 7EC3F9EA-F71F-403E-90C6-CA69A941CD70.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:20:44 -0500 Message-ID: <5b7470aa-8d77-0733-6c37-af705cad835b@riddermarkfarm.ca> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:20:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Content-Language: en-CA To: coff@tuhs.org References: <16241ceb-fe92-7f25-bda0-0b327847728d@case.edu> <735c811e-62ce-5384-b83f-a3887baac89d@case.edu> From: Stuff Received In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Haraka-GeoIP: NA, CA, ON, Georgetown, 55km Message-ID-Hash: DK4SQTWKHLQ5AQJLABKATGNMR7OCIMNC X-Message-ID-Hash: DK4SQTWKHLQ5AQJLABKATGNMR7OCIMNC X-MailFrom: stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Generational development [was Re: Re: Early GUI on Linux] List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 2023-02-27 17:17, Dan Cross wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:06 PM KenUnix 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.