@nixCraft@mastodon.socialComputer Science is installing random packages or package manager because accepted forum answer told you it's your only hope. so you do it as the root user:
curl url/script.sh | bash
@nixCraft What could go wrong?
@nixCraft I did this and then I died. Be careful.
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Cynicism is appropriate, but "computer science" is the wrong term. "Computer pragmatics", perhaps.
But it gives me the heebie-jeebies to see "curl url/script.sh | bash"!
@nixCraft you know could also open the url and look into the script before you exec it as root ;3
@nixCraft This is actually Computer Janitoring
@nixCraft I disagree. You're describing IT work, not CS. However I agree with the fact that quite a few computer scientists wouldn't care and do everything as root (not even sudo, I do mean *root*). 
@nixCraft Systems roulette
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Your command didn't work for me. Even when I tried to sudo it.
@nixCraft don't share this toot, otherwise your colleague will setup a Webserver named "url" tomorrow...
@nixCraft Since I always use fresh containers for everything, that's fine for me.
@nixCraft Wisdom is packaging stuff you want to use when it's missing on your distro repositories and submitting it to your distro.
@nixCraft I know it looks worse but there is not really a difference to downloading a binary and running it manually. Realistically nobody is inspecting what they downloaded.
@dougmerritt @nixCraft I mean somebody checked before they signed the repo, right? 
It's like when the U.S. added "In God We Trust" in 1956 (and then claimed it had always been there).
If you can't trust signed repos, what *can* you trust?