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alt textin a file manager, we cd layer-by-layer into /home/aliu/.cache/paru/clone/upscayl-git/src/upscayl.git/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked/dist/linux-unpacked and can keep on going

clicking through folders in filelight, upscayl-git takes up 115.2 GB space out of the cache directory's 129.6 GB total, and every two layer the next layer's size decreases by ~1.3 GB the tree file list of the director folders heavily indents itself and just keeps getting longer and longer and never ends ls -l shows it's not a symlink

#aur #linux #upscayl #cache #electron #git #js

This took about 8 minutes to rm -r.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54411354

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 11 points 4 weeks ago

somebody messed up the packaging of that app mking it effectively kind of a zip bomb. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21665235

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Then use flat file packaging. This is the tradeoff with convenience.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

git packages are not supposed to be zip bombs