PPAs

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Can't people write something in their own descriptions about what the
PPA is for?  Is it easy for the PPA owner to edit them?  I think it's
still good to have a generic warning on a page that describes what
PPAs are for or how to use them, or somewhere like that.

In forums, mailing lists and comments under articles i tend to let
people know it is incredibly easy to set-up a Virtual Machine or an
extra partition for a dual-boot/multi-boot so that it's easy to
test-drive things.  Personally i tend to just tweak and install things
until i break my system and then wish it would magically go back to
the way it was and kick myself for not following my own advice.
Gnu&Linux has been such a relief because now it's so easy for me to
make a new / see the shared /home and reinstall anything i need
whenever i want.  Simples :))))

Regards from
Tom :)



On 20 January 2014 14:27, Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa at ubuntusense.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2014 03:23 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> On 2014-01-19 00:37, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
>>> On 01/18/2014 05:58 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>>>       Reading through the PPA docs, I could not help but wonder what
>>>> do you do to test one? I mean, you create a test PPA, put it up, and
>>>> before you know somebody comes along and tries to install it before
>>>> you declare it ready to be tested. And then gets annoyed because it
>>>> did something to his system.
>>
>> The PPA page includes this warning:
>> "Only add software repositories from sources that you trust!"
>>
>> To me it's obvious that you only install stuff from PPAs either when
>> somebody who you trust suggests it or after having asked the PPA owner
>> first. Should something along those lines be added to the PPA page? I
>> don't know...
>
> Sure, why not.  It might make it clearer.
>
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