On 2006/01/12 19:10, eric wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:13:23 -0800, Ted Unangst proclaimed... > > if you're installing a package that's going to exploit a bug in perl, > > why are you installing it? > > So are you advocating that people not patch, or not install packages?
Look at the situation and decide if the bug will affect you. On a box with only trusted+clueful users, with some patches you might decide there's no problem with waiting for the next binary release.