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MacApps - http://macapps.link/

  • August 5, 2015
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New free Ninite-esque multi-app installer:

http://macapps.link/

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  • Valued Contributor
  • August 5, 2015

Looks very interesting, but you would have to put a lot of trust into those links. Looks sort of risky.


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  • New Contributor
  • August 5, 2015

What? Piping the result of a curl command to a root shell? What could possibly go wrong?


mm2270
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  • Legendary Contributor
  • August 5, 2015

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.


  • August 6, 2015

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).