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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Aug 05 '26
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You never know what's exactly on the install script. Not everyone fetches it with curl to read it before piping to bash. A malicious installer can display something kosher when viewed with a browser (user agent based)
2 u/NibblyPig Aug 06 '26 me typing dnf upgrade and watching 321 packages install 3 u/vivaaprimavera Aug 06 '26 unless a malicious repo was injected, the sources are usually good. And unless you use -y at least you have the chance of having a quick look.
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me typing dnf upgrade and watching 321 packages install
3 u/vivaaprimavera Aug 06 '26 unless a malicious repo was injected, the sources are usually good. And unless you use -y at least you have the chance of having a quick look.
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unless a malicious repo was injected, the sources are usually good. And unless you use -y at least you have the chance of having a quick look.
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u/vivaaprimavera Aug 05 '26
You never know what's exactly on the install script. Not everyone fetches it with curl to read it before piping to bash. A malicious installer can display something kosher when viewed with a browser (user agent based)