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I personally also don't like this, so use cargo to install it, it's in the readme. Takes a reasonable time to build on my X220, but on a modern computer it is plenty fast.

  cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/tontinton/maki.git maki

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Is there a meaningful security difference between curl-pipe-bash and cargo install --git? Couldn't the cargo install include a buildscript that jumps right into a shell?

Sure, but you can review the git repo's content/commits in plain text, while curl-pipe-bash would require you to reverse engineer the binary that's downloaded.

If somebody hacks the project's home page and switches the download location to a hacked binary, you'd be none the wiser. Of course, somebody could hack the repo and add a deliberate vulnerability as well, but at least you would have a trail of it.

You can review the contents of the git repo before building it.

For curl | bash, you cannot. “But you can pipe to a fil—“ nope: https://tferdinand.net/en/why-curl-bash-is-a-dangerous-bad-h...

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