Hehe..I agree here as well. I don't really care much for the installer
mechanism, perhaps a wrapped perl script which parses an XML
document that is downloaded using perl http libs?
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
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On 26 Apr 2001, Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, I'm sure you've been beaten up by this question
> repeatedly, but I just have to ask:
>
> Which one of you monkeys was on the pipe long enough to come
> up with the "pipe lynx into sh" installer mechanism that Ximian
> GNOME uses to install?
>
> You realize that this is quite possibly the worst install
> mechanism, not only from a security perspective but from an
> end-user ease-of-use/familiarity perspective, of any program
> you can currently obtain.
>
> You used to install irc this way, by piping telnet into a shell.
>
> Evil.
>
>
>
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