[pkage]

This is a fairly common way to install tools on Linux. Tailscale, Homebrew, Pi-hole and many others offer installations in this way.

[AndyKelley]

The same criticisms apply to Tailscale, Homebrew, Pi-hole and all those others.

[usr942568903890]

> The same criticisms apply to Tailscale

No it doesn't.

Tailscale's shell script is entirely optional and installs a distro/package manager specific package. It also doesn't mess with your PATH variable.

They maintain packages for most popular distros as you can see here https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/.

The sibling comments are just spreading misinformation because those people were too lazy to actually look anything up.

[nicce]

While it is fairly common way, it does not mean that it is good way.

[lagniappe]

Not an argument.