alt Hacker NewsIs there any reason to keep using postinstall scripts allowed instead of asking e.g. the user? Are they even needed in most cases?
Is there any reason to keep using postinstall scripts allowed instead of asking e.g. the user? Are they even needed in most cases?
If you ask the user "should I run this script" after installing, they will just hit yes every time. But also, a lot (I'm confident it's "most") of NPM install operations are done on a CI server, which need to run without human interaction.