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    Caption: Installing an AUR package without reading it's PKGBUILD.

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    [–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    I once found a Rust program that streamlined the PKGBUILD reviewing process a lot by, first of all, giving you a really neat list of patterns and behaviours that would make a PKGBUILD suspicios or even plain dangerous, then having a scriptable rule-based engine that would either abort that operation, or show warns and workarounds to you.

    I forgot its name, unfortunately, and I installed it on my previous installation (Garuda, now I'm on CachyOS).

    Very dumb of my part not to try to write that down before the OS change lol.

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    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

    Update your desktop only all one or two weeks, get basic protection (adblocker, hosts file), read the news.

    It's a peaceful life.

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

    without reading [it is] pkgbuild

    I didn't know it was.

    [–] Solrac@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

    I was contemplating moving to NixOS, but then another fiasco just happened, masse me question what would one have to lose by switching to Qubes instead, considering the increasingly surveiling internet.

    [–] sel@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I just don’t understand the process of I don’t have two minutes to read what I’m installing. It’s fucking batshit crazy that all these retards want to come use Linux which is fine but then when they get solid advice they tell us they can’t be bothered.

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    [–] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 5 days ago

    ~~Without reading its PKGBUILD~~ fixed it for you. The AUR is toast, we have to say goodbye to it now.

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