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>>rubyn0+(OP)
Neat! But it's not obviously a bad idea. You have a TLS connection with the site you're downloading from. `curl | bash` is no worse than downloading a .dmg or .deb from the same server would be.

>>cjbpri+e2
dpkg/packages have sanity checks to make sure that files aren't being overwritten, and things are generally in a sane state.

curl|bash involves no checks, and no system integration whatsoever.

>>throwa+k4
dpkg doesn't stop you overwriting system files in a post-install shell script, as far as I know? Which is the way that a malicious package would choose to do it. I don't think dpkg performs any meaningful security review in the way you describe.