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kcybtoday at 4:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

As an arch user, I would always skim the PKGBUILD file of AUR packages to see if they install the software they claim to install from official sources and if there's something obviously fishy.


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naturalmovementtoday at 4:55 PM

The BSDs prevent this by never having allowed random jamokes to upload Makefiles into the ports system.

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echelon_musktoday at 4:23 PM

I'd be surprised if you did it as a Debian user!