# A Warning

Package managers by their nature have the potential to do serious harm to your filesystem. At this stage of its development, the risks posed by PackMan itself (as opposed to software you may choose to install using PackMan) are judged to be as follows:

- - failure of software that PackMan has installed: moderate
- - failure of other software: low but non-negligible
- - corruption or deletion of user data: very low

If you use your machine for any purpose where such failure could result in serious harm then it is strongly recommended that you make sufficiently frequent and regular backups of your programs and data to avoid such harm.

# No Warranty

PackMan is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Apache License, Version 2.0 for more detail