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I absolutely hate that this is modus operandi for the homebrew and ruby communities. Who though that this is a good idea?
by ominous_prime 14y ago
I absolutely hate that this is modus operandi for the homebrew and ruby communities. Who though that this is a good idea?
- petercooper 14y agoAnyone who values the user experience over the tiny chance of a security breach. I'm not validating it as a good practice, but that seems to be the main reason and I've not heard of Pow or Homebrew causing any problems in this regard.. yet ;-)
- StavrosK 14y agoNever mind the security aspect, how am I going to uninstall the damn thing or upgrade its components (which other things in my system might use) with a custom installer? There's a reason I don't install things that don't use apt.
- whimsy 14y agohttps://github.com/yeoman/yeoman/wiki/Manual-Install https://github.com/yeoman/yeoman/wiki/Manual-Install There is a manual installation process provided on the front page; Yeoman itself appears to be a Node.js module in the node package manager npm.