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Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?

What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The install process requires one of:

  • Running a command with npm
  • Manually compiling binaries from source
  • Manually installing dependencies

These aren't bad per-se, but my experience has led me to associate these with spending a bunch of time trying to resolve errors and having to give up in the end and not install the software after all, so if there's any alternatives that I could use I am trying those first.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A requirement.txt that doesn't list versions. Especially if it has pytorch. I've fought dependency issues for too long with projects like that.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

all the academic code

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Sometimes compiling is painless.

But if it throws any errors, I'm out.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Omg. As soon as I see npm, I nope out. So so so so so many dependencies, broken this, not working that. I'm over it.

Supply chain attacks are a bitch.