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I meant this in jest but now that I think about it, it actually could be a decent name (?)
Fundamentally, doesn't the security depend entirely on whether https is working properly? Even the standard package repos are relying on https right?
Like, I don't see how it's different than going to their website, copying their recommended command to install via a standard repo, then pasting that command into your shell. Either way, you are depending entirely on the legitimacy of their domain right?
Not always - in browser applications for example, there is no way to directly access the disk, nevermind mmap().
In the past I think I wound up using https://github.com/mgoltzsche/podman-static because I could not get those podman static binaries to work
Python does it best from what I've seen so far, with its __repr__ method.