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Yes, there's always sloppy packages, or ones that need side effects (but that's usually very rare, and sometimes even then it's because of sloppyness), but installing something via package manager comes with certain expectations (I can update it, I can uninstall it, it's usually got a few standardised places where its config lives, etc). curl|sh makes most of these things a greater nuisance rather than frictionless


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