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And the repo doesn't ask you to pipe curl output directly into the shell? Neat!

Yes it’s very different. You download source code and execute it. Compared to downloading source code and executing it.

The more manual and stepped method makes it more likely you'll read through it first.

I don’t believe the average user carefully analyse the makefile or similar build instructions.

Is this code for “check out the number of git stars and go ham on the .sh”