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j45 an hour ago

What's valuable is someone figured out and shared one way of doing it, their way, and I don't think it was asserted that it was the best or the only way.

Lots of folks use community scripts, or use them as inspirations to build their own.

zbentley an hour ago | parent [-]

A community script is fine. A community script which redistributes opaque binaries that are actually renamed builds of an unrelated project with an incompatible license via curl | bash is not.

At best it indicates a lack of awareness of package managers’ value and convenience (and probably distributes binaries that only work on the owner’s distro to boot). At worst it encourages dangerous install practices and/or distributes malware.

A blog post (“here is how you install bluez and run a couple of systemd units that pipe Bluetooth to your VM”) is both more useful for users whose setup differs from the author, less sketchy license- and malware-wise, and more educational. If you want a prepackaged bash tool that automates that too, go nuts. Just don’t vend other people’s software in curl | bash binaries in your repo.