Hi Eduard, Eduard Bloch wrote:
verify his/her own package. But in this case a central check would be cheap and easy to implement. Almost zero effort compared to the damage done by corrupting tapes.Oh, come on. People who put $TAPE into the default environment may also link /dev/null to /dev/hda (or /dev/sda) and complain to the coretutils maintainer because ln isn't unable to think for them.
Its a weird analogy, but I can guess your meaning. $TAPE was set by default for historical reasons. I just did not expect that rebuilding a package would corrupt my tape, and when I noticed it was too late. I was pissed. Sorry for that. Regards Harri