[Python-Dev] pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable [sic]

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Well, to be fair and leaving aside uptime concerns and the general
desire to always install packages from some server instead of
a safe and trusted local directory (probably too obvious ;-),
it would certainly be possible to add support for
trusted externally hosted packages.

However, for some reason there's a strong resistance against
doing this, which I frankly don't understand.

I agree with Stefan that the warning message wording is less
than ideal. You'd normally call such blanket statements FUD,
esp. since there are plenty external hosting services which
are reliable and safe to use.

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