Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet@bytereef.org> added the comment: I think the whole security paragraph should be deleted. The discussion on python-dev has overstated the risks. Anyone who is *that* security conscious and in effect does not trust the Python committers should also audit the thousands of lines of ./configure and any code that is executed by `make install`, to name a few "security risks". What I would like to see in the devguide is a cookbook shell script with minimal comments that interested persons can simply run. The easiest way for me (I'm running two bots) was to install Python-2.7 from source, then pip, then `pip install buildslave`. (Yes, as root :). That automatically gets everything right and you don't depend on stale packages from the distro. ---------- nosy: +skrah _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13124> _______________________________________