@bot I was mistaken, I was thinking of windows, which doesn't allow you to disable updates and only allows you to defer them for 7 days.

Although you can uncheck the box to not auto-update anymore, there's no doubt in my mind that in certain situations that setting is going to "reset" and "updates" are going to be installed.


The free software community as a whole regularly checks the source code - there are some people who love nothing better than checking every single git commit via git log even.

There have been a few instances where malicious 3rd parties have tried to add a backdoor by gaining access to a git server and adding surreptitious commits that add a "bug", except the community found out every time and ensured that there was hell to pay.

While I'm compiling updates, I can easily look through the source unpacked to /var/tmp/portage.


How often have you ever read a single line of a macOS update?