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1. laumar+(OP)[view] [source] 2018-07-29 16:07:04
> Maybe a new tool that downloads and then runs a script from the interwebs needs to be written

What you're describing there is a package manager. What we don't need is a tool for running any random script from the wider internet.

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2. gkya+d3[view] [source] 2018-07-29 16:41:53
>>laumar+(OP)
Isn't that tool what we call a "user"?
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3. allann+e7[view] [source] 2018-07-29 17:26:25
>>laumar+(OP)
Yet Another Package Manager :) Seriously - you're right, but people use curl | bash because it's super simple/fast and usually just works. Package managers can be an intimidating mess; even the choices we have in package managers confound things these days - did I install that with apt? snap? npm? pip? aw, crap that program I just installed with pip isn't working because I'd already installed a version with apt and some of it's configuration isn't compatible!!!

It's a mess. I really like snaps, but I hesitate for this reason - safer to default to apt on my ubuntu machine.

[edit] by safer I meant 'less likely for me to get confused and so screw up something', not meant as a security comment.

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4. jchook+6H[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-07-30 01:29:22
>>gkya+d3
Sick burn.
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