[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks

[Miles Bader]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>     Tobias> But when there's a checkout hook-script you have almost
>     Tobias> zero chances looking at the code in question before it's
>     Tobias> already too late.
> 
> Oh, c'mon.  Tom surely would allow you to defeat the script execution.

But I think it's the default which is important.  Typing `make' is
potentially dangerous, but people are very used to the concept, and if
they have some doubts about the sources, it's a well-defined and
familiar point before which they can assume things are safe.

-Miles
-- 
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'