But yeah, I agree, if package maintainers were astute there, a warning would've probably been good somehow. Not sure pacman supports pre-install warnings. Maybe? It does support warning about installing a renamed/moved package. But the naming would've had to be really weird for everyone involved if the warning would be clear in that case.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I admit, all distros are a different degree of footguns, I'm saying this as a nix user. lol

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Just as with anything you do in life, take action with a healthy side of precaution.

This is a life lesson. I've learned to be careful around the oven. I've also learned to be careful running volatile commands. 😅