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An infrastructure tool's primary installation method should NOT be curl | sh


It should be. This is the least friction way to do so as server Linux operating systems still have not agreed on a common application format / package manager.


> It should be. This is the least friction way to do so as server Linux operating systems still have not agreed on a common application format / package manager.

Nowhere in your response did you mention security.


Unfortunately there is not a standardized way to securely install something.


or reproducibility


And after all that, the shell script only does

go install github.com/aspectrr/fluid.sh/fluid/cmd/fluid@latest

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