| ▲ | 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. | ||