On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:32:19 +0000 (UTC) notify@aur.archlinux.org wrote:
Trilby [1] filed a deletion request for ussdpad [2]:
There are countless ugly and potentially dangerous hacks in the installation wrapper script used here. This will (try to) invoke pacman to install dependencies from an install script called from the PKGBUILD. It will then (try to) "sudo make install" to the root directory rather than to the PKGDIR.
This is a rats nest of problems for would-be-users, and for the safety of those who might otherwise try to install this package, it should be deleted until the submitter can take the time to write a proper PKGBUILD.
Cross ref to forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198173
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Trilby/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ussdpad/
Tribly, could you point out specific examples? While I agree the pkgbuild is kind of crappy, I'm not seeing any calls to pacman, and the only references I see to sudo are only in a text file.