I am not going to fight about Admin Practices with everyone. If you take what you recieve from any list as gold you aparently cannot think for yourself anyway.
The only thing that I did was, instead of complaining about how wrong the threat in question is, I proposed a solution; and then shared some of my opinions. Everyone should maybe try to explain their practices so the list might gain something, instead of arguing mine.
You just nullified the value of that support by installing your own 'primary packages' (which I would assume would include the kernel, all outward facing services, and anything else, if you've achieved what you stated your goals are).
Josh