You really don't see the difference between a deterministic script installing a tarball pinned by its hash, and "sudo chatgpt install master branch of this repo"?
replyYes, the second option gives me an easily inspectable list of results (as I can see all the tool calls the model made). The deterministic script is probably overly complex and hard to read, maybe supports ten billion platform combinations.
replyMost PKGBUILDS are stupidly simple, they're probably easier to read than a set of tool calls. See this for a randomly picked recently updated example:
replyhttps://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=batte...
(honestly I think the way that arch packages work is really nice compared to most other distros: you can almost copy and paste the README of a project into one and have a package)
Here's the most complicated one I found, building a browser:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=flowf...
The main risk, if you're reading them, is typosquatting and hiding the malicious code in what the project downloads.
Arch is famously x64 only?
replyI run it on my milk-v duo s risk sbc. The risk-v version is maintained by a few dedicated people, and the milk-v specifics I had to fix myself. But it works :)
replyI knew there's an unofficial version for ARM. I meant more that the vast majority of AUR packages target x64 only because that's what 'official' Arch supports.
replyThat being said, didn't know there's a RISC V effort as well now, so TIL.
> The deterministic script is probably overly complex and hard to read, maybe supports ten billion platform combinations.
replyUh sorry what? Can you point to a PKGBUILD that is indeed this complex?
The AUR is still a better option than using curl to freebase shell scripts straight from github, which is pretty much the go-to route for any LLM-generated guides.
replySee also, the -o- emoticon: https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk&t=1902s
Nobody needs to rethink anything in "the age of AI". Stop trying to make everything about your favorite topic. If the tool can provide value then they'll use it, if not they won't.
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