Re: [Haskell-cafe] Offer to mirror Hackage

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:29 AM, C. McCann wrote:

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Ketil Malde wrote:

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I'm a bit surprised to find that there seems to be a lot of opposition to this view, but perhaps the existing structure is more secure than I thought?

The difference is in the ability to influence other packages and metadata, I think. You could upload a trojan to Hackage right now, but who would ever install it?

I could upload a new version of mtl if I wanted. Plenty of people would install it. Luke