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Comment by haskellandchill

2 hours ago

I think it is common that in installing packages you have hooks to execute code anyway.

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grey-area  2 hours ago

This should not be common.

  • haskellandchill  2 hours ago

    The current situation is that you have to go out of your way with things like `pip install --only-binary`. There is a lot of implicit trust in developer tooling.

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