Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Feb 5

Hot take: If we added a "--install" option to #curl, we could optimize many a "| sh -" pipeline away.

Finally a truly universal installer.

Show threadGötz Hoffart
@larsmb @bagder The true systemd way would be to build a POSIX shell into curl, right?
Feb 5 at 6:29pmWeb
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Feb 5

@goetz No, the true systemd way would be to replace it with systemd-urld, a DBus service that is configured via plenty of .unit/.service files and a systemd-url-ctl CLI

But it can also no longer download to the same locations you used to use, since those are now immutable.

Oh, and a SELinux policy, with a different context for every domain.

Show threadPete / SyllopsiumFeb 5

@goetz @larsmb @bagder hmm.. The aim here is surely to make installation of programs easier. Logically therefore what is required is to provide access to the largest marketplace of programs - which is Windows.

Therefore Curl should have an integrated PE executable decoder, and all of WINE included in it.