Visit Homebrew, Rustup, Oh My Zsh, nvm and few other popular open source projects website and you realise that quietly `curl -fsSL` has become the most popular package manager for Linux and Unix users 😂 How did we get here ? 😔 Just pipe the random commands into your shell with sudo added to the mix. What could possibly go wrong? 😑
@nixCraft sat through an Amazon-guided AWS lab where one of the steps entailed installing something by piping curl through sudo. I was dumbfounded that they were encouraging/normalizing this.
@nixCraft wouldn't it be even better to explain clearly instead of making fun of people?
@nixCraft i hate it when that's the only option. I often try to read the script itself and it's an obtuse mess.
@nixCraft curl is nice. Im already running some arbitrary code I haven’t read when using any of these packages, so running a script by them doesn’t seem that much less safe :thinkhappy:
@nixCraft it brings some excitement into my otherwise dull life
Their trying to say, or just saying what's up to NixCraft. Can't really just say anything on a page, others sees them comments. But I guess there's issue unmentioned, not just what's up all the time.
@nixCraft install clumsy blobs, replace content and environment.