Posted on 08-05-2015 02:03 PM
New free Ninite-esque multi-app installer:
http://macapps.link/
Posted on 08-05-2015 02:10 PM
Looks very interesting, but you would have to put a lot of trust into those links. Looks sort of risky.
Posted on 08-05-2015 02:15 PM
What? Piping the result of a curl command to a root shell? What could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 08-05-2015 02:39 PM
No thanks. Does seem too risky to me.
At least AutoPkg/AutoPkgr point to the vendor supplied DMGs/pkgs and not some obscured pseudo link. Who knows what it's actually downloading?
One of my own scripts does something similar to this but pulls the installs directly from the vendor(s). I would never in a million years expect anyone to trust my own URLs in the script.
Posted on 08-06-2015 09:09 AM
I certainly wasn't recommending it, I was more curious to what the nation's observations are.
Anyone who sudo'd that curl would deserve exactly whatever happens to their system(s).