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Drawing/editing program Pinta messed with my certificates

13 June 2021, 08:28:50

I installed Pinta drawing/editing program and when it installed it pulled down another packages one of them called mono-addins that depends on another one called mono that requires ca-certificates-mozilla. When i saw the output from terminal changing some stuff about certificates root certificates and so on i got my face purple of  anger. Why the hell a drawing app would need certificates? And if it need scertificates why it not uses those that are already installed on my machine? So now my question is how can i check if my certs are ok and not messed up beyond repair. I tried to uninstall with "pacman -Rcns pinta" but certificates that were pulled down were not removed. Is there any way to double check if something fishy is going around with this. What package i should reinstall to "make my certs great again"  Thanks in advance

Re: Drawing/editing program Pinta messed with my certificates

Reply #1 – 13 June 2021, 12:05:35

I might have a clue, anyone correct me if i'm wrong. Certificates were not installed along with pinta but were just updated. Didn't check for updates today before installing pinta so it could updated the certs even i did not explicitly requested that?

Re: Drawing/editing program Pinta messed with my certificates

Reply #2 – 13 June 2021, 12:38:34

Have you tried to reinstall the certificates? Just delete them and everything which is dependent on them (e.g. firefox) and then install from scratch.

BTW Pinta is a piece of a crapware because it uses mono and pulls all of this crap as dependencies. I suppose it just needs some special certificates in order to download that .NET stuff from its own repositories.

Re: Drawing/editing program Pinta messed with my certificates

Reply #3 – 13 June 2021, 22:24:26

The way that looked was like were updated separate certs not as a whole or package very strange. That looked so strange that i decided to reinstall artix from scratch anyway i had little packages installed so for now you guys avoid that weird pinta "drawing" crapware. I must look in advance for each package for questionable dependencies. Those certs should be optional not required in my opinion

Re: Drawing/editing program Pinta messed with my certificates

Reply #4 – 13 June 2021, 23:06:33

I used Pinta for a while ago. That was about 7 years ago in Debian 6 or 7, IIRC. Then I moved to the next stable version of Debian and learned that Pinta was dropped out of the Debian official repositories, and it turned out, that this was done for a good reason. I managed to find a third-party repo for Pinta and tried to install it, but I was to attach mono repos as well, and there were hundreds of megabytes of pulled dependencies. So, I gave up my attempts to install Pinta and switched to KolourPaint as a lightweight alternative to Gimp.

It seems like a joke that a "lightweight" image editor like Pinta needs hundreds of megabytes of packages to install, whereas such combined multi-purpose machine as Gimp weights around 30 MB as a package and around 150-200 MB when installed.