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[Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Zoltán Balogh
<zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are two fundamental problems with PPAs. The number one you too name.
> It is the security... enabling a PPA opens a security whole as the owner of
> the PPA can push updates to any package and any file in the system.
>
> The other is performance. Enabling 10-20 PPAs will make the update process
> very slow.

BTW, PPA is generally not mirrored.