Comment on Malicious Atomic Arch NPM Campaign Thread
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoHave you actually tried installing packages onto SteamOS (with readonly disabled)? Because system packages will be out of date with mainline Arch, which is already a bad idea on a rolling-release distro, and on top of that they are stripped from important stuff required to build other packages from source. It’s been a hot minute (> 1 year) so I forget if it was symbols or what exactly, but my point is the same: SteamOS should not be treated as an Arch system where you can expect additional (official or user) packages to work.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I agree with you, nobody should disable readonly mode and tinker with system packages (and I do not mean Flatpak). However there is an alternative to this and officially supported. Valve added an exception to Nix package manager, that you can use to install packages from Nix repository and update them without pacman. And it will remain even after a system update, without disabling readonly system.
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
My comment was about AUR packages tho.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I know, and I answered accordingly. I gave an alternative to install packages, because its not recommended to use AUR on Steam Deck.