Author Topic: Package Managers rant  (Read 51 times)

I don't really understand package managers but they feel really weird to me, they feel like "App Stores" and it always concerns me to get multiple programs from a single source. I do use stuff like ninite or chris techs winutils though so I'm a but of a hypocrite as I don't know where they download stuff from. In my ideal world you kind of just judge the web page you download from but now I'm typing that out that sounds handicapped.

Anybody here able to explain why it's not a big deal? I feel like this might get complicated fast. For the record I don't know stuff.

iirc chris titus tools source from chocolaty which is stated somewhere in the gui or description. using a package manager essentially boils down to you trusting them to source the right, trustworthy precompiled files instead of having to figure out yourself which publicly available download source is the trustworthy one. same way youd trust gmail/your primary email provider to be online all the time and thus be able to send and receive mail. if you're using the internet for anything, you're participating in a deep hierarchy of trust, like CA certs for https and websites you go to to not save your ip and session data for brown townysis. or your vpn provider doing that, if you use one for that reason.