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this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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Depends. I read the PKGBUILDs of all AUR packages I install at least, which is not the same as reading source code but it's something. If it's a very widely used piece of software I don't bother—if all these people haven't spotted some secret backdoor, I as a lay person am not going to be the one to spot it. I will read small things like bash scripts or in general the more "obscure" software I run will be some kind of script. But also if you're going to publish malware in a script you're probably obscuring the malicious function so that someone doing a preliminary read won't spot it.