Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Hot take: If we added a "--install" option to #curl, we could optimize many a "| sh -" pipeline away.
Finally a truly universal installer.
Tom BortelsNot sure how "| sh" is any less secure than what people do 99.9% of the time anyway, which is download an installer or executable and not bother or validate it.
If you really want to change the world, work out an actually secure mechanism (tall order!) and have --install implement it. Not sure what that would look like: https requirement, maybe a database of known/vetted installations, a means to report issues. Very tall order.
Dr. Christopher Kunz@tbortels Well that's, like... a package manager? Let's call it cURL Universal Package System and abbreviate it CUPS... oh damn.
Sadly I think I trust Badger and friends to get it right more than my package manager.
CUPS. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...