Forgive me, for today I have been doing 'npm install' and 'pip install' as root on a production system.

Forgive me, for today I have been doing 'npm install' and 'pip install' as root on a production system. Barely one step removed from 'curl|sudo bash'.

I feel so ... dirty.

Comments

  1. Stephen Gunnell11 August 2016 at 19:02

    At least they are package managers. It's not like you were piping through gzip and tar.

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  2. Rob Masters11 August 2016 at 19:37

    Pip might as well be!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sephi PiderWitch11 August 2016 at 20:15

    passes Rob a tissue Take some vitamin C and you will feel better real
    soon.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Stephen Gunnell11 August 2016 at 20:47

    Just be glad it is Unix Pip not CP/M PIP.

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