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[Matthew Flaschen]

Scott Lockwood wrote:
> 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.

No, what that means, is it's quite possible that universe and multiverse
packages will go unupdated (possibly leaving critical vulnerabilities).
 That doesn't mean all will.

Matthew Flaschen