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Re: Welcome 5.0



On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:34:29PM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> 
> Would a network of people allowing distcc runs be desirable for pkgsrc
> bulk builds?

No.  Do you really want to be running a system full of executables
generated by random purportedly well-meaning people all over the
net?

We try to be pretty careful about what we ship as NetBSD.  It is
clear that _slightly_ less care is taken with some of the package
builds but we do our best.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost
    "Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.* at the UNIX
     prompt only to realize too late that they have removed the wrong
     segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS whitepaper


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