Hi, love what you are doing, pi-hole is a great product, and an absolute necessity for me.
That being said: I wish you would move away from the install script. While the script itself seems mostly fine, it is just not the preferred way to do distribution/installation.
The install script:
- Is snowflake way of dealing with installation that makes things harder for sysadmins and users
- Is less secure, partly because you manually maintain dependencies in the script for several distros, partly because it requires root privileges and curls binaries from the internet and runs them
- Changes systemwide configurations which should really be up to the user (lighttpd)
- Needs to support multiple package managers in one file
- Is harder to write, since you need to reinvent the package management wheel
- Is currently hard to read, which means it is
- -> 1. Harder to maintain by maintainers
- -> 2. Harder to vet by users
A package manager based installation enables easier configuration of machines and I guarantee it will help adoption. It is also the only sane long-term solution.
I'm sure you could refactor the install script by removing the important bits to use in separate packages.
Perhaps the install script could live on as a configuration script?
Any progress towards this would be good, I understand that this is a big change.
Thank you