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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's worth knowing that .deb files can contain setup scripts that get run as root when installed, so you should trust them too.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Yeah. They all come with risks, but I psychologically struggle to run shell scripts unless I know what's in them. And the same brain dysfunction makes my automatically distrust a script that doesn't set pipefail.

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