Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

[Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl>]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:41 -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> >     No, they can't.  Not without your expressed consent...
> [...]
> 
> They can't, if they just use the normal Debian archive contents.
> However, packages can do all sorts of things via installation scripts.
> 
> Then again, the package could hide all sorts of things.  (Think:
> trojaned binary.)  If you don't trust your package source, you shouldn't
> install their packages.

I'm not worried about a malicious packages. I am more concerned that a
3rd party deb damages the system by mistake. 

By default I install all 3rd party binary and source packages in a
~/programs folder. That way I don't have to worry about fubaring my
system.

I like to do something like that for deb packages too. Who knows a good
solution?

 
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Regards,


Aniruddha