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		Hackbraten on Oct 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VHS: CLI home video recorder What do you feel is unsafe about Homebrew?

password4321 on Oct 27, 2022 [–]

For starters: auto-updating everything before installing anything (HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE default 0).

Coupled with uninstalling before determining whether or not the OS version is still supported (not sure if this still can happen, or ever happened on Linux)... fun times all around.

naikrovek on Oct 28, 2022 | [–]

that's it?

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