Plugins for watching DVD, SVCD, VCD, Divx, Xvid with totem-xine?

[John]

Markus Kolb wrote:

> On 22.09.2004 01:47, John schrieb:
>
> [...]
>
>> I've gone off apt-get.org because I don't see that it's properly 
>> controlled.
>
> [...]
>
>> Some time in the future the owner decides to plop Gnome, growisofs 
>> and/other stuff in there.
>
>
> You are right. Additional it is very unsafe to install packages from 
> unknown. If you don't check the content. It could be done everything 
> with your system.
> I think it will only need time that there are packages with backdoors 
> and stuff like this in the apt-get.org repositories.


Well, it has happened with several official sites; there was a mirror in 
.nl some years ago. sendmail and Debian sites have been breached.


Iven if you _know_ you got that Zmailer package from me, you don't know 
what I did to it:-)

>
> I have found here http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ many 
> packed archives with a lot of codecs.
>
Here's another site for us all to blindly trust:-)

I've not yet been hit with a Trojan Horse (that I've noriced), but I do 
know the risk exists, that I've been lucky, and I do still take the risk.

Presumably, if anyone significant in the OS movement springs a leak they 
will either fess up to it quickly (as Sendmail and Debian did) or be 
sprung by someone who notices. Mostly, OS companies depend on good will, 
and papering over mistakes does not promote good will. If, say, Red Hat 
offends, there's are comanies such as Progeny ready to take a slice of 
its business: anyone can offer the same software, and many do. Built 
from RH source, no less.