Richard O'Keefe wrote: > On 21 Apr 2009, at 2:10 pm, Edward Middleton wrote: >> Using non-standard installation methods makes it harder for package >> maintainers to package the application and suggests you haven't taken >> any care / don't care about making global installation safe. > > I'm sorry, there is no such animal as "safe" global installation, > in the sense of "download this one package and do what it says."
Well I have been doing that for more then 10 years, it is one of the functions any decent package management systems is designed to do. > ghc 6.8.3 is /usr/bin/ghc on my office Mac, but nothing in the world > prevents there being some other program called ghc that would also > like to be there. Only by painstaking verification of a whole > bunch of applications together can one be confident of "safety". Well then I guess we agree, so the question becomes who should do the painstaking verification. I think distribution maintainers should do this, you think end users who can't compile source packages should do this. Edward _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
