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by ferventcoder 3750 days ago
"Chocolatey is that they depended on a bad upstream tool"

Hindsight is amazingly much clearer than decisions you make at the time with all the constraints and requirements you have in the moment. :D

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I looked at chocolatey a few years back and decided I didn't like installing anonymously packaged software on my machine.

Recently my team started using it for cloud formation app deployment and I see it has reviewed and approved packages now.

I was also under the misaprehension that chocolatey packages contained binaries but they typically download from the software makers site at install time - so no binary interference to inject nasties by package authors.

Have to say I'm impressed with the updates to security and will look into using it privately as a result.

Thanks for your work!