[issue]: Remove BLOBs from the source tree · Issue #2795 · ventoy/Ventoy
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What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'm appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f8946...

I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

  • n2burns@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I too wish the developer would respond, but I don’t think this is the catastrophe people are making it out to be. One comment seems to explain why these binaries are included:

    Because ventoy supports shim, and by extension secure boot, these files needs to come from a signed Linux distro. In this case they are taken from Fedora releases, and OpenSUSE apparently, as they publish shim binaries and grub binaries signed by their certificate.

    • infeeeee@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      It sounds to me as a documentation issue, as the next comment says, simply including a wget script should solve this.