[sjmulder]

Another downside of these scripts is that they tend to make changes to your user or machine configuration, something which is tolerated from Windows installers but a big no-no for me. E.g. I believe Cargo edits .profile to add its path and Teams makes itself start at login (!).

For reasons such as these, but also things like telemetry configuration defaults and clean uninstalling, I prefer using a package manager. In a way independent package maintainers balance out the power of upstream developers over end users. They embody “you can just change it if you don’t like it” for the regular user.

[steveklabnik]

Cargo does not. Rustup’s installer does, by default. It informs you of this before it does so, and you can ask it to not if you’d prefer.

[sjmulder]

Thanks for clarifying - it’s been a while!

[steveklabnik]

Any time :) I’m the end your main post is right, just the details are a bit different.