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by golem14 231 days ago
""" uv is straightforward to install. There are a few ways, but the easiest (in my opinion) is this one-liner command — for Linux and Mac, it’s:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh """

Also isn't great. But that's how homebrew is installed, so ... shrug ... ?

Not to bash uv/homebrew, they are better than most _easy_ alternatives.
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caymanjim 230 days ago
There's a completely irrational knee-jerk reaction to curl|sh. Do you trust the source or not? People who gripe about this will think nothing of downloading a tarball and running "make install", or downloading an executable and installing it in /usr/local/bin.

I will happily copy-paste this from any source I trust, for the same reason I'll happily install their software any other way.

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golem14 230 days ago
It really depends on the use case. A one-off install on a laptop that I don't use for anything that gets close to production - fine by me.

For anything that I want to depend on, I prefer stronger auditability to ease of install. I get it, theoretically you can do the exact same thing with curl/sh as with git download/inspecting dependencies, installing the source and so on. But in reality, I'm lazy (and per another thread, a 70s hippie) and would like to nix any temptation to cut corners in the bud.

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ShroudedNight 231 days ago
I hate that curl $SOMETHING | sh has become normalized. One does not _have_ to blindly pipe something to a shell. It's quite possible to pull the script in a manner that allows examination. That Homebrew also endorses this behaviour doesn't make it any less of a risky abdication of administrative agency.

But then I'm a weirdo that takes personal offense at tools hijacking my rc / PATH, and keep things like homebrew at arm's length, explicitly calling shellenv when I need to use it.

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