On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:29:56AM +0000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 01:33 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> [... long informative explanation of egg...]
> In particular, will an egg wrapped inside a Debian package magically
> install other bits of software not from Debian packages? Will it install
> them in the correct places?
This is a dangerous practice from ore than one point of view:
1) it may pollute the system with non-DFSG-compliant stuff
2) as a both python developer and debian user and developer I DO NOT want
software to download and run stuff without my knowledge and explicit consent