I found this linked in the comments of another article about this, so I wanted to link it here for completeness, as it means my above concerns are a little less

I found this linked in the comments of another article about this, so I wanted to link it here for completeness, as it means my above concerns are a little less valid: https://twitter.com/pear https://twitter.com/pear Main Point: >If you installed PEAR on your Linux system using your distribution's package management tool, it is hugely unlikely that go-pear.phar was included with it... and even more unlikely that you would have used it on that system.