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Raspberry Pi 5: available now! (www.raspberrypi.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they're referring to that one time they installed a Microsoft repo on Raspbian without permission.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks, that makes more sense. According to an article on ars it doesn’t actually install anything so I don’t see their problem. All they have to do is comment out the line or just use a different distribution.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It was removed a month later anyway. Now VSCode can be installed through the main Raspbian repo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OK they apparently did, but apparently they did it silently, at least I never noticed, maybe because I switched to Debian?
I actually thought it was still there!

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=306597

But you are right they did it after about a month. If only they had owned up to it. Or at least announced it more clearly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think the main problem is just screwing with the system like that without permission. I mean, I know I was pretty pissed off when I found a Microsoft repo in my sources one day. It's not like it was a standard update or anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the overwhelmingly paranoid, there is one further possibility: if Microsoft were to make packages available in its repo with the same names as packages in the standard raspbian.raspberripi.org repository specified in /etc/apt/sources.list, it could override the "real" system packages with others of its own making.

I love the "overly paranoid" label, when you're talking about a repo than can alter "real system packages".

In what world is this OK?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s not the same as their claim that Microsoft software was pre installed and has access to your system which is what I’m arguing was incorrect.