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Image of a man pointing a gun at his own foot.

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

  • Azzu@leminal.space
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    24 days ago

    I mean how often do you install AUR packages? Usually takes like a minute or so to skim through PKGbuild and the pkg comments and look for obvious issues. And most updates are just a sha hash and version change, taking like 5s to check.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      But wasn’t the latest AUR attack from a dependancy in the pkgbuild? Going out of your way to review all the dependencies as well is not really possible by just skimming through the script.

    • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
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      24 days ago

      I need a better wrapper that shows me diffs since last build. I’m too lazy for this

      Also pulling in release messages from git etc would be nice