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> If you install a package via the package managers on debian, ubuntu, fedora, and other major distros you can be reasonably sure that the packages aren't malic
by irahul 15y ago
> If you install a package via the package managers on debian, ubuntu, fedora, and other major distros you can be reasonably sure that the packages aren't malicious because they've been security reviewed before they made it into APT/YUM/etc
When people are delivering software that isn't in the official repository, downloading a script and running it is no less secure than the alternatives.