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		mcguire on June 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My God, it's full of yaks When did "curl \| sh" become an acceptable install process, again? Let's Encrypt uses it, too, but it makes my elderly sysadmin heart spasm with terror.

twic on June 26, 2016 [–]

It gives me the willies too. But it's not really any different to running the build script in a project you just downloaded.

curl | sudo sh is much more of a problem.

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