On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:37:21PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > And the next step, is we take advantage of our large network of user > computers. When the above happens, we copy the completed package to > the archive ... and end up doing all our packages this way. > > OK, well, it's probably not really practical ... but there's an awful > lot of spare computer power hanging around out there, and if it was > easy to safely tap into, we could accomplish some great things when > people aren't using their machines, ala SETI. I don't know about you, but I resent the idea of having packages in the archive compiled by random, untrusted people. Uploading packages made from modified sources is trivial. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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