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Adding a package repository is a very conscious choice that also requires a password. Cut & pasting a line of code from we website is not. This is why a lot of time and effort was spend in the past educating users not to run random code from the internet. That is may be safe in this particular specific case does not change the fact that this generally undermines the message that one should not cut&paste arbitrary code from a website into a terminal.


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