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Re:Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side by Sean1708 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:51AM (#11534348)
Correct me if I'm wrong but can't you also run arbitrary code while installing packages?

Either way I'm not saying `curl | bash` is good, I'm just trying to point out that people have a very knee jerk reaction to it and pay no mind to things which are similarly as dangerous.

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Re:Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side by rmc on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:56AM (#11535335)
Yes, it runs arbitrary code. But checkinstall avoids other downsides from curl|bash
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