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The game you're thinking of is 'Pac-Man' (hyphenated). This is a package management tool for ArchLinux. Similar to 'yum' for RHEL. Or Debians 'apt-*', 'dpkg' t

by laumars 11y ago

The game you're thinking of is 'Pac-Man' (hyphenated). This is a package management tool for ArchLinux. Similar to 'yum' for RHEL. Or Debians 'apt-*', 'dpkg' tools.

aikah 11y ago
It also work on Windows, it's what MSYS uses for package management, convenient to avoid having to install CYGIN or using virtualisation.
- riffraff 11y ago
  msys uses pacman? Is there another msys than the one at mingw.org[0] ? I believe you but I just can't find any reference to pacman there. [0] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
  - green7ea 11y ago
    I googled 'msys pacman' and it seems that msys2 uses pacman: http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/ http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
  - kryptiskt 11y ago
    He means MSYS2 https://msys2.github.io/ https://msys2.github.io/ It's great, it has a wonderful collection of libs, sometimes it can feel a little bit too cutting edge, but after the stagnation of Mingw I'm not complaining about that.
- laumars 11y ago
  It's open source software so it can (given enough time and motivation) be ported to whatever platform you wanted. Because of this I think there's a few other OSs / distro forks that also use pacman. But primarily, `pacman` is developed by ArchLinux maintainers for ArchLinux.
fu86 11y ago
It is, for sure, a little bit confusing :) http://p.fu86.de/1454938855-32650.png http://p.fu86.de/1454938855-32650.png
- laumars 11y ago
  Not that confusing really - the two applications couldn't be more different in use. "Pacman" is abbreviated from "package manager" while "Pac-Man" is derived from "Puck Man", named so because the yellow avatar looked like a hockey puck. (the reason for the name change is quite interesting too[1]). While it's true that the ArchLinux devs do play on the name similarities (there's even an easter egg to turn the `pacman` progress bar into a little Pac-Man eating up ASCII pills[2]), I think most people who might confuse the two wouldn't be familiar with the package manager anyway. And those who are familiar with `pacman` are likely technical enough to tell the difference. [1] Renamed because of worries that some US audiences might vandalise the Puck into Fuck. [2] Put 'ILoveCandy' (without quotes) under the [options] in /etc/pacman.conf

by laumars 11y ago

The game you're thinking of is 'Pac-Man' (hyphenated). This is a package management tool for ArchLinux. Similar to 'yum' for RHEL. Or Debians 'apt-*', 'dpkg' tools.

aikah 11y ago

It also work on Windows, it's what MSYS uses for package management, convenient to avoid having to install CYGIN or using virtualisation.

riffraff 11y ago
msys uses pacman? Is there another msys than the one at mingw.org[0] ? I believe you but I just can't find any reference to pacman there. [0] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
- green7ea 11y ago
  I googled 'msys pacman' and it seems that msys2 uses pacman: http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/ http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
- kryptiskt 11y ago
  He means MSYS2 https://msys2.github.io/ https://msys2.github.io/ It's great, it has a wonderful collection of libs, sometimes it can feel a little bit too cutting edge, but after the stagnation of Mingw I'm not complaining about that.
laumars 11y ago
It's open source software so it can (given enough time and motivation) be ported to whatever platform you wanted. Because of this I think there's a few other OSs / distro forks that also use pacman. But primarily, `pacman` is developed by ArchLinux maintainers for ArchLinux.

fu86 11y ago

It is, for sure, a little bit confusing :) http://p.fu86.de/1454938855-32650.png http://p.fu86.de/1454938855-32650.png

laumars 11y ago
Not that confusing really - the two applications couldn't be more different in use. "Pacman" is abbreviated from "package manager" while "Pac-Man" is derived from "Puck Man", named so because the yellow avatar looked like a hockey puck. (the reason for the name change is quite interesting too[1]). While it's true that the ArchLinux devs do play on the name similarities (there's even an easter egg to turn the `pacman` progress bar into a little Pac-Man eating up ASCII pills[2]), I think most people who might confuse the two wouldn't be familiar with the package manager anyway. And those who are familiar with `pacman` are likely technical enough to tell the difference. [1] Renamed because of worries that some US audiences might vandalise the Puck into Fuck. [2] Put 'ILoveCandy' (without quotes) under the [options] in /etc/pacman.conf