The problem with 3rd party repositories
I am a big supporter of the idea of a common repository format for all software management tools around Linux. Because if there would additionally be an easy way to include and exclude standard 3rd party repositories they would eventually find their way into more corporate environments, and would maybe become the default way to update software in Linux environments - at the moment we already have repositories for skype and macromedia, but there are plenty of companies which do not provide repositories at all.
But: whenever you install software from someone else, you should be aware that this person can gain total control of your entire system. The same is with repositories where a person can easily insert software packages which update your system packages (as long as you don’t specify the packages). And that’s a big security risk!
So big that no one should ever enable any third party repository he or she doesn’t fully trust in!
A very good example of what can happen when you activate the wrong repository is the so called Treviño Story.
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