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Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by xg15 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:54PM (#50431987)
> Security abominations like "curl | bash"

As a user, I would love to get rid of curl | bash and use the OS package manager instead. This would actually be more convenient to me: I wouldn't have to hunt through the documentation to find out what was installed, where it was installed, how I can update it (or does it register its own auto-updater?) and how - or if - I can uninstall it again.

This seems more like a convenience for certain software projects who can't be bothered to interact with distro maintainers and instead want to circumvent the distro system entirely.

Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by api on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:20PM (#50433793)
The problem is there’s no other way. Linux is 20 OSes in a trenchcoat. There is no standard way to do what you ask.
Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by xg15 on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:25PM (#50433825)
No, but there is a handful of widely used distributions, which could us already get 80% of the way done.

Why not at least provide a Debian/Ubuntu and Red Hat package?