search

dmyTRUEk / gensoquote

Gensokyo Quotes
MIT License
2 stars 0 forks source link

[FEATURE] Installation script #1

Closed randomtwdude closed 5 months ago

randomtwdude commented 6 months ago

I wrote a simple bash script to install gensoquote. (part of the fumosay-gensoquote wrapper script) gensoquote_install.txt

dmyTRUEk commented 5 months ago

I honestly don't think creating single "general" install script is good practice. There are a lot of problems with it and almost infinite amount of possibilities that you would need to cover.

For example your gensoquote_install.txt (and probably any other humanly written install script would) have at least this problems:

  1. Even /bin/bash itself may not exist or be at another location, for example like in nixos, it's located at /nix/store/mb82447z77gwh2vfsmvj03qq141c6rph-system-path/bin/bash, or any other os that doesn't use FHS.
  2. Person installing program may \<not \<want / \<be able>> / \<prefer other implementations>> to use any of commands that script uses, such as curl (maybe they prefer wget or any other), git (maybe they like gix) and so on.
  3. On most linux distros prefered way of installing anything (rust/cargo including) is through package manager instead of script from the internet.
  4. Installing program to /usr/local/bin (even in case of FHS) means that firstly you need root access and secondly it is will be available to all users of pc
  5. It only works on Debian and Ubuntu (and all their derivatives) which are only about third of all linux user. But what about two thirds of other? Like Fedora and all it's derivatives, Arch and all it's derivatives, not to mention all other distros that are "different" like NixOS, Gentoo, Linux From Scratch and so on? Supporting them all (or even three main: Debian, Fedora, Arch) seems extremely hard task for me and i honestly don't want to be cause of someone's problems, like on Pop_OS! when you installed Steam you could break your entire desktop.

And that's not even considering it from the security and bugs point.

randomtwdude commented 5 months ago

Those are some good points!