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Re: [transcript] source package formats



Previously Adam Heath wrote:
> However, it has its drawbacks, the 2 most glaring that it hides the
> source in subtrees, all packed up, and that it doesn't extract into
> <pkg>-<ver> directly.

You conveniently ignored Ian's biggest con: it does not gave you a way
to get to the source as it is compiles without running a script. This is
bad, since it means you have to run an untrusted script in order to get
to the source. Imagine the unpack-rules doing something like 
"sudo rm -rf /". Oops...

Wichert.

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