[Zope-Coders] (Off-topic) Linno

[Guido van Rossum]

> From: Shane Hathaway <shane@zope.com>
> 
> (On a tangent, there ought to be a program called "Linno Setup".  It 
> would provide an easy installation wrapper for Linux software downloaded 
> from the 'net, bringing a lot more people to Linux.  I think this hasn't 
> been done yet because of concerns over Linux viruses, but we could deal 
> with most of that through code signing.)

I was with you until the last sentence.  Why would an easy to use
installation wrapper have more risk of transferring viruses than, say,
RPMs?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)