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Re: MD5s of setup.exe on mirrors.


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It was actually all academic before since: 1) there was nothing wrong
> with the setup.exe on the mirrors and 2) people shouldn't have been
> running setup.exe from the mirrors to begin with.

Can you elaborate on why people shouldn't run setup.exe from the mirrors? I
don't see what is the difference between setup.exe and the other packages. If
you trust the mirror for all other binaries, why don't you trust it for setup.exe?

Alex

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