[Bug 3461] General observations

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3461

--- Comment #5 from ricky.tigg at gmail.com ---
I ended to doubt that my original intention to install OpenSSH from
code source is even a suitable practise. A new evaluation made me
consider that the attempt might be risky. My original motivation to get
the latest OpenSSH version within my system was solely conducted by
having issues addressed –among them the ones security-related.
Functionalities newly added were not part of my motivation.

I realised
- that changes related to fixes are back-ported by the distribution i
use.
- that the 'configure' script may point to /usr by default, which as
result would overwrite the core SSH implementation bundled with my
distribution. If it does, that would not be a recommended way to start
off.
- that executing 'make install' as root would likely overwrite the
Fedora supplied packaged versions of those files.

In that context it certainly appears wiser to leave my project undone.

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