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Curl to shell is a result of Linux's fragmentation. It's the only way to provide a simple install process.



If I were trying to distribute a package on Linux I’d be pretty intimidated by the number of package managers. I might start with Debian. Do an alpine package, then nope out.

If the app was a server instead of a cli, I’d start with a docker image. I ended up giving up on installing Erlang on my little embedded system and went with the docker image instead.


Props for mentioning Alpine, the only sane distro.


Of cource is not. https://flatpak.org/




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