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On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Julie Marchant <onpon4@riseup.net> wrote:
 On 02/09/2017 11:45 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
  (2) putting on angband.pl's nosystemd repositories.  this is "hard
 work" for me to both set up, and for others to remove (revert) just as
 you say, so i am unlikely to do it... but it's an option.

   for my laptop i'm using angband.pl's nosystemd, which is not kept
 up-to-date with security updates

 Luke, for the love of God and for your own sake, please do not
 distribute something to your customers that doesn't receive reliable
 security updates

 i will not be distributing something that doesn't receive reliable
security updates.  i appreciate you raising this, it's important.

 ah.  i see where you got the misimpression from.  *angband.pl* does
not keep up to date with security updates.  however that is my
personal laptop.  i would not recommend *to anyone* that they follow
(qty 1000 or 10,000) what i use for my *personal* laptop.  it's a
highly complex and comprehensive specialist setup.

  because of your personal preferences. If someone's
 machine gets compromised because of this, it will tarnish your
 reputation. Remember your target audience: they're not the type of
 people to go into a command-line and do...

 then what i might do instead is get debian-installer set up instead.
i cannot and will not give something to people that i know will cause
them pain or distress, even if they don't understand it.

 lots of possibilities, and some time to think about them.

 bob's definition of "an ethical act" applies here, so if anyone else
can think of something that we've missed, so that it becomes possible
(as best we can) to come up with a solution that people are in *100%*
agreement is acceptable, that would be... good.

l.

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