On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:15:21 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:06:12PM -0400, Clarke Sideroad wrote:
> > 
> > As a Linux user for over two decades I don't think twice about
> > adding the applications I want and dumping the ones I don't,  
> 
> As a Linux user for over two decades I feel the same way, with one 
> proviso:
> 
>     Provided I have a clue what the package does.
> 
> With  soe of the obscure package names I see nowadays, that's not 
> necessarily true.  It might be a package essential for the proper 
> functionoing of apt.  With network-related packages, that's quite 
> possible.  Life can be ough when you're cut off from the package 
> repository.

..ooo, indeed, the very reason you should have your own mirror 
of it, and why we have easy recipes to set them up. :o)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.
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