[Wylug-help] ad/spyware

[James Holden]

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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:48, John Hodrien wrote:

> > You can verify the authenticity of the source using the gpg signatures
> > from the authors. You can then be sure that no funny patches have been
> > added by whoever built any binary packages you might otherwise use.
>
> But that's not a benefit of building from source, that's a benefit of using
> signatures.
>
> jh

I was more bemoaning the habit of the distributions of piling patches
onto packages.

James


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