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Re:Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta by Ice_cream_suit on Saturday March 31, 2018 @02:52AM (#16722128)
Your fman was the package that surreptitiously ran update daily as root.

I cannot imagine that any security conscious Linux user would willingly use it

* This was a consequence of it's Windows heritage.

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Re:Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta by mherrmann on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:00AM (#16722150)
This was fixed one year ago, within two days of being reported. I was new to Linux at the time and didn't know better [1].

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/an-apology-to-linux-users/

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