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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.

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I’m running Arch daily since 2015, was on Debian before. I install and try a lot of stuff. Never had anything bad happened to me once. Worst case scenario the shit I just installed didn’t work so I have to debug it.
    Not endorsing this apparently dangerous lifestyle, but also a little bit maybe

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      10 days ago

      I get why we need to do this but most people are not programmers either and probably don’t understand wtf they’re looking at.

      While I understand some of what um looking at, when in just trying to get the updates over with its super annoying to review each aur pkgbuild.

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        6 days ago

        You really don’t need to be a programmer to check for obvious bullshitery, you just need to read like four pages explaining what part means what there.

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          4 days ago

          I disagree.

          Picture… I dunno, a plumber. Hates computers but he knows to click the thing to update.

          • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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            4 days ago

            Now picture a different, more computer-curious plumber. He doesn’t hate computers, so he reads two pages on a wiki and now can at least spot when the url has changed or when the diff added some new step that wasn’t there before. You don’t need computer science degree to see that there is a new command that weren’t previously, and google that command.