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by 778464636 415 days ago
Supply chain attacks is a big downside no one ever mentions. Even sudo-rs drags dependencies in from Github at build time instead of being self-contained, which is just an absurd thing to do for such an essential tool, especially in the current political climate.
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1) every dependency comes from crates.io, not straight from GitHub

2) the dependency list is tiny

3) it uses a cargo lock, so even if it were using a GitHub dependency, that file keeps a hash of the dependency and points at the specific commit, so if the dependency were to introduce a backdoor it wouldn't be automatically picked up and a commit history rewrite would also fail

https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/blob/main/...