Why is the trend today towards installations like this?
curl install.amon.cx | bash
I'm looking at you, rvm, npm et al. Yeah, I'd just love you to poop files randomly into my filesystem, with no tracking, and a completely non-standard uninstall process (if I'm lucky enough to have one at all).
We evolved package management for a reason - I know it's a pain to have to make a .deb, a .rpm and a .tar.gz - but is it really that much more work than making an entirely custom install script?
This, along with the dependencies (I don't like having to install MongoDB just for this), is the reason I don't want to try this.
I could probably deal with the installation, although I hate installing all those daemons and init scripts myself, but installing Mongo just for one thing, gah. Too bad there isn't an embedded version of Mongo, and my own goatfish[1] is still far from mature.
curl install.amon.cx | bash
I'm looking at you, rvm, npm et al. Yeah, I'd just love you to poop files randomly into my filesystem, with no tracking, and a completely non-standard uninstall process (if I'm lucky enough to have one at all).
We evolved package management for a reason - I know it's a pain to have to make a .deb, a .rpm and a .tar.gz - but is it really that much more work than making an entirely custom install script?