Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?

What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    122·
    6 hours ago

    The install process requires one of:

    • Running a command with npm
    • Manually compiling binaries from source
    • Manually installing dependencies

    These aren’t bad per-se, but my experience has led me to associate these with spending a bunch of time trying to resolve errors and having to give up in the end and not install the software after all, so if there’s any alternatives that I could use I am trying those first.