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It is sketchy. :) Your intuition is correct.

The idea is that you will need to put some trust in the project anyway, since you’re trying to install it. Might as well make it easier with a one line install.

Edit: You should only do this if someone reliable tells you to, honestly. Doing this with truly random projects you aimlessly find is not a good idea.



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