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Caption: Installing an AUR package without reading it’s PKGBUILD.

  • Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org
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    4 hours ago

    Yeah. There’s also some others behaviours to look at. Like, does the PKGBUILD install the package on some non-standard location? That’s a suspicious behaviour, although it’s not an automatic red flag by itself. Does it execute arbitrary code or any external script (worse if it’s Python, Lua or JS)? That’s a HUGE red flag in most of cases. Does it (ab)uses of AWK, sed and the like? That’s also suspicious in a variety of cases.