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by rpier001 969 days ago
Out of context (and with limited knowledge) comment 3 seems terrifying.
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I assume you mean this part:

> We will clobber any previously installed version of this package, even if it breaks whatever else is installed. It's the user's job to make sure that is all sorted out ahead of time.

But this is a `make install` recipe, and I think this is generally expected behavior when running that command. Typically, this would be run in a chroot when building a package.