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by ben509 2602 days ago
You're not helping your case by pointing out the platform's standard practice for installers is to use a language from the '70s that makes it trivial to write "rm -rf /", and (as that ticket indicates) the command will carefully work its way through all connected devices, including external drives.
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You are not helping your case either by pointing out a dev's inability to handle a well documented language with known pitfalls that has been in use since the 70's.

If they can't write bash scripts there are a lot of options to install, update and remove software with built-in fail-safes.

That language also makes it trivial to make a safe wrapper function for "rm" which validates the arguments and prevents accidents.