skye • meow on Nostr: npub14rj0m…ylp34 npub1qxme4…gmn3t npub1m7w24…pvmjt you know how they have ...
npub14rj0me676jvfw8c9fsexks24rw68zh3rr5ujrw99pt7sacfvcapsgylp34 (npub14rj…lp34) npub1qxme432vrt0p746nmel678wxgyueyk45dhkjj5gpta8v2rv3wxts0gmn3t (npub1qxm…mn3t) npub1m7w242qenn6xcw2u75vzlgg7x2846lgd85jzr7sr9cm787898tgqlpvmjt (npub1m7w…vmjt) you know how they have package signatures these days? they didn't used to have that. and they fought tooth and nail against the idea to add that functionality to pacman. which led to one guy writing his own package manager, called spaceman, in bash of all things, that could do it, but because we were like 8 people we still largely used arch repositories, and dear fucking gods. they blocked the spaceman useragent so we had to masquerade it as firefox to access their repos, and i was not involved in the mailing list flamewars but i did see some of it. it was BAD.
so eventually i had other things to do with my life and largely ignored the existence of arch and other fun distros, until a few years later i saw someone use pacman on their laptop and it said something about package signatures and i almost died
so eventually i had other things to do with my life and largely ignored the existence of arch and other fun distros, until a few years later i saw someone use pacman on their laptop and it said something about package signatures and i almost died