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I don't understand how the tap trust improves security at all. If I'm installing something from a third-party tap, instead of running tap + install, I now run tap + trust + install? How does this protect me against compromised taps?

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Exactly - so far seems like a windows vista “are you sure?” Modal. Are we missing something here?

You can now trust individual files inside taps. It was not clear to all users before now that some commands (before —-eval-all, a mess this replaces) would evaluate all packages Ruby code from all taps). This cleans that up and some other security degrading edge cases I won’t bore you with here.

Trust is also user specific now.

It’s not a silver bullet but it does help address some potential attacks and gives us a foundation to improve on over time.

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