I don't like `curl|bash` not because it's insecure but because I don't know what it's doing to my system, and I don't believe that it understands my system prop

I don't like `curl|bash` not because it's insecure but because I don't know what it's doing to my system, and I don't believe that it understands my system properly. Ideally I'd download a single binary and put it in /usr/local/bin myself.