[COFF] [TUHS] Re: Generational development [was Re: Re: Early GUI on Linux]

[Stuff Received]

On 2023-02-27 17:17, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:06 PM KenUnix <ken.unix.guy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have they not heard of common sense? Whenever I get something from git I look through it to
>> check for something suspicious before using it and then and only then do I do make install.
> 
> Up to what size? What about the dependencies? How about the compiler
> that compiles it all?
> 
> I have a copy of the Linux kernel I checked out on my machine; it's
> many millions of lines of code; sorry, I haven't read all of that. I
> often install things using the operating system's package manager; I
> haven't read through all that code, either. Life's too short as it is!

Too true.  I build in a restricted account but even so...

(Decades ago, I used Harald Alvestrand's TimeTracker but disabled his 
UDP start-up announcer.  Even though there is not much source, I never 
would known about it had I not read the README.)

S.