Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 06:01 -0600, Jim Perrin wrote:

As far as package installation goes, Jake outlined most things quite well. What's being ignored is that this depends on the package. These packages aren't maintained, so no one is checking them to see if there are security issues associated with them. If what you have installed is a service or application that is exposed to the outside world, then you have the possibility for exploit in the older, unmaintained version.

Does that mean the source coding will be "lost" forever ? and if someone in the future wants that functionality, they will have to re-invent the 'wheel' ?