> This type of install script can't be run offline, because it needs to fetch dependencies (so you can't download it once and run it on multiple systems, and y

> This type of install script can't be run offline, because it needs to fetch dependencies (so you can't download it once and run it on multiple systems, and you can never run it on an airgapped system) Well, you could if the script was written well enough. Back in the usenet days shar archives were a thing. Basically a shell script that had a large uuencoded payload (which itself was probably a tar file), so that you could just run it and get binaries out. Of course no one actually does that any more since conversion to unicode bloats the archive considerably. But there's no technical reason why it couldn't.