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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No, it was compiled by the team which maintains my distro's package repository, and cryptographically verified to have come from them by my package manager. That's a lot different than downloading some random executables I pulled from a website I'd never heard of before and immediately running them as root.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Everything you've ever needed was available in your distro's package manager?

[โ€“] BatmanAoD -2 points 7 months ago

Yes, I agree package managers are much safer than curl-bash. But do you really only install from your platform's package manager, and only from its central, vetted repo? Including, say, your browser? Moreover, even if you personally only install pre-vetted software, it's reasonable for new software to be distributed via a standalone binary or install script prior to being added to the package manager for every platform.