PPAs

[Svetlana Belkin]

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.

Svetlana Belkin
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