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Software shouldn't uninstall or update itself. There should be a package manager to do this. Then at least you have one attack vector less per application.
by OtomotO 3y ago
Software shouldn't uninstall or update itself. There should be a package manager to do this.
Then at least you have one attack vector less per application.
- zdragnar 3y agoThe upshot of a gated garden is that it is walled and gated. The downside is that it is walled and gated.
- OtomotO 3y agoI don't feel gated at all by my linux installation. If I want I can customize everything, but at least I don't have to deal with a thousand installers and update processes on a day by day basis.
- random_mutex 3y agoThere are custom repositories and the ability to install packages from disk
- herbst 3y agoAnyone can create a compatible repository to any open package manager. No gates, no walls.
- Kuinox 3y agoAnd package manager provides hooks to run custom logic when uninstalling. Your arbitrary constraints doesn't solve the problem. Also system wide package manager almost never have the option to install easily multiple time the software.
- herbst 3y agoWhen I read the title I had to remind myself what an uninstaller even is. It's been a while since I touched something like that.
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- vultour 3y agoAnd who uninstalls or updates the package manager?
- hardware2win 3y agoSoftware shouldnt update itself? What? Thats crazy If browsers werent updating itself we would have huge security mess
- proto_lambda 3y agoThe package manager updates the browser, just like it updates everything else.
- hardware2win 3y agoWhy would software want to rely on some external software?
- throwawee 3y agoI think package managers are the single most impressive feature Linux distros have over Windows. Everything else I use has some kind of equivalent; for a dev environment you can sort of get by with MinGW and MSYS. But if there's anything on Windows remotely as capable as apt or pacman, I haven't heard of it.
- delta_p_delta_x 3y ago> But if there's anything on Windows remotely as capable as apt or pacman, I haven't heard of it winget: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/wi...
- quickthrower2 3y agochocolately too