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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by krageon on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:00AM (#33355800)
If you're committed to being an idiot no amount of rules of thumb will save you. Not understanding what you use is one facet of being committed to that.
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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by jraph on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:57AM (#33356247)
But people don't live in a vacuum. They live in an ecosystem, are subjected to it and contribute to it.

If I contribute to Nextcloud or write an app for it, I need to run npm. If I want to run PeerTube, I need to run npm. They both pull a shitload of dependencies I can't possibly review.

I personally avoid building anything using NPM and advocate for fewer / no dependencies, or for using dependencies packaged by reputable entities like Debian, but what can I do? I can't build everything myself.

Am I committed to being an idiot?

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