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Not intentionally malware. But the OPAM install [0] deleted my $PATH, and it took me a while how to fix that one. They've since fixed what allowed the problem
by shakna 7y ago
Not intentionally malware.
But the OPAM install [0] deleted my $PATH, and it took me a while how to fix that one. They've since fixed what allowed the problem to happen [1], well it was a combination of that (normal shell problems) and a power-outage that killed the installer just before completion (in which case the script may just think it's complete).
But I'm sure similar catastrophic side-effects can occur in other install scripts out there.
[0] https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Install.html https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Install.html
[1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2165 https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2165