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Same reason you want to `brew please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard` or `apt-get please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard` or `please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard.exe`.

There's little practical distinction between piping a shell script from a random site or downloading a binary from it.

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> or `apt-get please-pwn-my-computer-so-hard`

Installing a package manually vetted by distribution maintainers, signed and verified with GPG, is the same as blindly running a random script off the internet?

I don't think you appreciate how much effort Linux distributions invested into creating safe ways of distributing software.

The difference being that distro packages are distributed in a safe matter (signing and verification) whereas a website could be hijacked and the script replaced or you could get MITM'd if you access it over HTTP.

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