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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by bigbugbag on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:52AM (#13317153)
It absolutely does.

You trust the distro maintainer and have a security mechanism to ensure the scripts and binaries have not been tampered with.

So virtually no risk of MitM and very little risk of malicious scripts and binaries.

Reading script and decompiling binaries does not imply you understand every thing they do, but it does imply that you have an unlimited amount of time which is impractical at best.

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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by scrollaway on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:05AM (#13318789)
No, it really doesn't. I was not comparing to distro packages (which are an excellent solution to the problem, like I said elsewhere) but to download links.
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