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Does any distro read through 100% of the source-code of a package before adding it to its repo? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Man, I forgot what it was called, but once I was on the website of some batshit paranoid linux / bsd distro, which had a list of argument for why they removed certain packages.

It definitely seemed like the maintainers were reading the source, but some of the arguments were also really out there.

Hope somebody can remind me of what it was called.

Edit:

found it

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That is, ummm, interesting. Can their installed system do anything, though? There are so many restrictions, it seems like it would be a difficult installation to daily drive.

And some of the justifications are really confusing. I realize some are probably typographical errors, but I can't figure out what a few of them are saying at all. It reminds me of the people that invent their own lexicon and just expect everyone to understand what they are saying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Package has different security-issues and is not oriented on the way of technical emancipation as Hyperbola is trying to adapt lightweight implementations.

It sounds like something chatGPT would hallucinate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think even ChatGPT would eb called non-free for them though