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Although I applaud the efforts, at the current state that's just sugarcoating the nastiness of code-executing installers. A package installation should basically just deploy the components of a passive package archive to the filesystem and leave any actions to the package manager. This solution doesn't even provide a generic interface e.g. to run a query which file would be provided by which package or to which package a specific file in the filesystem belongs to. The installation process still relies on mostly uncontrollable code execution.


Well, how else would windows software give you an option to decline to not skip disabling the installation of their system heath turbo-boost quick launch tray toolbar search engine registry cleaner by checking a box?




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