On Monday 19 September 2005 00:00, Horst Herb wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:52, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > Just stay up there a little longer - I absolutely love klik! > > > > ... > > > > > I find the concept wonderful. > > > > Please klik this to boost your performance: > > > > klick://somewhere-nice.org/lose-all-your-files.elf > > same as deb ftp://somewhere-nice.org/ ... > or rpm -i lose-all-your-files.elf ... > > It doesn't really differ from any other type of binary download in terms of > security. If you don't trust the source, don't do it. > > But since the majority of users are installing software on single user > systems, it might even have a slight advantage by installing in user space > as that user - in the very worst case, you lose the contents of your home > directory, but not more One nice thing about it is that it works from existing *.deb / *.rpm. One does not have to package yet another format. If I understand this correctly one needs to provide a recipe which tells klick where to fetch the rpm from as well as some other stuff. It will then fetch the deb , repackage it into the file which really is nothing more than a cramfs image. Mac user know this concept already.
If you are paranoid just build from source. Don't forget to look at the source first. For the rest of us I guess common sense should help us to differentiate between packages from trusted and untrusted sources. 4 more weeks to go before I will take a look at it. Sebastian -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.openmed.org] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null ICQ: 86 07 67 86 -> No files, no URL's VoIP: callto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] My OS: Suse Linux. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
