• leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      10 months ago

      It never occurred to me before reading this comment that there actually is a use case for the execute permission. To me it was always just this annoying thing I have to do whenever I download an executable which I didn’t have to do on Windows.

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        10 months ago

        Hm, maybe there should be an option to always disable the executable permission when extracting

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          10 months ago

          That’s perhaps possible, but likely would have to be implemented in each achieving tools individually.