Yum failing me...

[Tony Nelson]

At 6:26 PM +0300 7/28/05, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>...Tell me, how carefully watched are the people who maintain
>packages in, say, extras? Can these repros really be trusted in that
>sense? I guess that I am, in a way, letting the maintainers of the
>repros add anything that they like to my system- I don't have the
>knowledge to go over every last package, and as a home user, I do not
>plan on aquiring that knowledge.

Put another way, are there any known cases where a packager for a major
distro or repo has acted with malicious intent?  (I'm also curious about
this.)
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