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Safety stopped here: "curl https://sh.rustup.rs https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh" So did my interest.
by sh_tinh_hair 10y ago
Safety stopped here: "curl https://sh.rustup.rs https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh"
So did my interest.
- PudgePacket 10y agoIt's convenient for the majority of people. There are regular downloads available (https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/other-installers.html https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/other-installers.html) and you can probably also get Rust through your system package manager.
- nnethercote 10y ago"I trust your binaries but I don't trust your shell script for installing those binaries."
- theseoafs 10y agoThere's nothing stopping you from downloading the script and peeking at it yourself. There's also nothing stopping you from using the many other installation methods available.
- deathanatos 10y agoThis is effectively what most package managers do too. If you're going to be running code from a third party, you need to be able to trust that command, or there's really nothing you can do, as some equivalent of it is going to run.