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[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Todd Walton wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM, David Bierce <david at bierce.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> I did it at about 7AM today and got it instantly...and the  
>>> download went as
>>> fast as my 1.2Mbps pipe would take it.
>>
>> I got on at 6:30 or so this morning.  I got a serial, and I  
>> downloaded
>> the shell script installer.  But it says I can't use it until I
>> register on the site.  Is that not correct?
>
> Good lord!  That is obscene!  This shell script *does* contain binary.
> Aren't there decency laws against that?



It's nice to know that some companies understand me -- as a linux user  
I'd much rather just enter my root password and let a downloaded shell  
script do whatever it wants. It's too much work to understand what  
it's trying to do and grant it appropriate permissions.

--

I know other commercial packages do this, for a variety of moderately  
valid reasons, but seriously -- I'm afraid package managers will do  
things I don't like. Binaries that are automatically run out of script- 
embedded tarballs and won't even display the EULA without root access  
are right out, at least until I've reverse engineered them and can run  
the installation in a more controlled fashion.

	Zach

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