Re: Idea: Install script to better support improving contributor-friendliness of projects

[Alex Vong]

Hello,

Here is a further explaination of why 'curl | sh' is a bad idea:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29382739/why-using-curl-sudo-sh-is-not-advised

Cheers,
Alex

Никита Чураев <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's how I want to use Guix and it is to increase
> contributor-friendliness of a project, so that the user can simply run
> a distribution-independent command to install all dependencies without
> having to hunt for them with `apt` and `dnf` manually.
>
> Unfortunately, Guix itself is not very easy to install, and the
> instructions are full of rather technical stuff like 'systemd' and
> 'upstart'.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html
>
> There should be a script like the one Haskell Stack uses:
>
> |curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh|
>
> IMO supporting this as a use case could really bring popularity to GNU Guix.
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