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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:42AM (#13318593)
> Unlike a distro package you can also just -not- pipe it to the shell immediately and actually read it.

IDK about other distros, but for the one I use (ArchLinux) it's trivial to inspect the install script, and they (PKGBUILDs) are usually well structured and easy to read.

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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by jpgvm on Thursday January 05, 2017 @12:31PM (#13329217)
Unfortunately the majority of package managers are bloated and awful. Pacman/PKGBUILD and emerge/ebuilds are notable exceptions, though there is also Nix and many super simple based tarball systems that are also very good.

But all of that is irrelevant when 99% of the Linux world is running RPM/APT.

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