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[Scott Lockwood]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 20:15 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >> I'm new to Ubuntu-land. What are repos?
> > 
> > Take a look at /etc/apt/sources.list. This file defines what
> > repositories you have setup to pull software from. If it's not
> commented
> > out, the one near that top that defines a CD-ROM location you might
> want
> > to comment. The rest are fairly safe to uncomment, unless you plan
> to
> > install WordPress. :-) I KID I KID!
> 
> But since we're on the topic, what this really means is that only the
> default software repositories are officially supported. 

And what THAT really means is, if a remote root exploit is found in
universe or multiverse packages, no one will care, or patch it for a
very long time, if ever. You will basically have to assume that you will
be doing ALL of the work to upgrade packages in either of those
repositories.

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Regards,
Scott Lockwood