Why not just have a quick once-over of the code? There's a reason suckless apps aim to be under a certain SLOC limit, and I take it that one of these is so that one can have a quick once-over of the code. And if the distro maintainer can't do this, so much the worse for the distrubition.
Peter -- sic dicit magister P PhD Candidate Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/peterjh