No. We trust the packages we install, including the way they decide to use the metadata. A bad package could delete all our files or cause dependency resolution to fail. Mostly they won't. Daniel Holth On Nov 20, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes:
They mean pretty much what the same words mean in RPM and do not need further bikeshedding.
But isn't it the case that the scenarios are different because in the case of RPMs, we have a presumed authority which can determine e.g. what obsoletes what, whereas with Python distributions, there's no central authority that has this function?
Regards,
Vinay Sajip
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