Never cleans it the way I want
I’m Cory, a software developer and package maintainer for Artix Linux.
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ArtixCory@lemmy.mlto Arch Linux@lemmy.ml•Compromised Arch User Repository (AUR) Packages, installing RAT malwareEnglish21·10 days agoWhat am I making up? That most AUR packages don’t have a .install file? You couldn’t be bothered to say what I got wrong or provide any evidence to back it up so I can only assume. But if you have issue with me speculating about how common .install files are in the AUR, fine. Here are some numbers.
Out of the 2500 packages I analyzed, only 19.08% of them had an
install
list in their PKGBUILD. One could very easily use the AUR and never, and I quote, “literally [execute] random shell scripts by strangers as root.”I also dug deeper regarding your claim that install files “don’t have to be explicitly mentioned in the PKGBUILD if it shares the same name as the package.” I can’t find any evidence of that. It doesn’t have to be listed in the sources, which is probably what you meant.
Clearly these couldn’t be the things I’m wrong about, so I await your careful clarification.
edit: Alright it’s clear that you’re not capable of grown-up discussion. You’re blocked.
ArtixCory@lemmy.mlto Arch Linux@lemmy.ml•Compromised Arch User Repository (AUR) Packages, installing RAT malwareEnglish32·12 days agoNot every PKGBUILD contains a .install file. So again, it is not inherently the case that you’re “literally executing random shell scripts by strangers as root.” slackness has it right that most people probably don’t read the install files, but it seems to me that their prevalence in the AUR is overstated here.
ArtixCory@lemmy.mlto Arch Linux@lemmy.ml•Compromised Arch User Repository (AUR) Packages, installing RAT malwareEnglish23·12 days agoYou’re literally executing random shell scripts by strangers as root.
You’re literally not doing that. Escalated permissions are needed for installing dependencies and installing the resulting package, not for building. Just try running
makepkg
as root and see what happens.
ArtixCory@lemmy.mlto Arch Linux@lemmy.ml•Compromised Arch User Repository (AUR) Packages, installing RAT malwareEnglish1·12 days agodeleted by creator
ArtixCory@lemmy.mlto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Google Keeps Making Smartphones WorseEnglish282·15 days agoAnd thus highlights the hypocrisy of their “let’s all be friends” messaging around getting Apple to adopt RCS; Google holds the keys to integrating RCS in messaging apps on Android. Last I heard they only granted access to Samsung.
I’d be willing to excuse a mobile OS for being partially or completely proprietary if it was good. But neither Android nor iOS are.
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