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> Unlike a distro package you can also just -not- pipe it to the shell immediately and actually read it. IDK about other distros, but for the one I use (ArchLi
by semi-extrinsic 10y ago
> Unlike a distro package you can also just -not- pipe it to the shell immediately and actually read it.
IDK about other distros, but for the one I use (ArchLinux) it's trivial to inspect the install script, and they (PKGBUILDs) are usually well structured and easy to read.
- jpgvm 10y agoUnfortunately the majority of package managers are bloated and awful. Pacman/PKGBUILD and emerge/ebuilds are notable exceptions, though there is also Nix and many super simple based tarball systems that are also very good. But all of that is irrelevant when 99% of the Linux world is running RPM/APT.