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by Kluggy 825 days ago
TL;DR

https://old.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1biunsl/hacked_in... has the smoking gun

> That all said, this is a plasmoid that was written for KDE 5. Maybe some interaction with KDE6 lead to the issue? One issue that could have happened is that property string configPath <SNIP> now uses another StandardPaths.standardLocations due to KDE6. This could lead to configPath looking like somepath / (note the space), which expands to sh save.sh somepath / ..., which will happily remove everything. The whole situation reminds me of the Steam uninstaller, where a single space had some remarkable results.

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>This could lead to configPath looking like somepath / (note the space), which expands to sh save.sh somepath, which will happily remove everything.

Obligatory classic:

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

> The whole situation reminds me of the Steam uninstaller, where a single space had some remarkable results.

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671