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Original post author here, Nuno Brito Except that exists no package named "remove" available today in mainstream Linux.. So we are forcing every single user ac
by nunobrito 11y ago
Original post author here, Nuno Brito
Except that exists no package named "remove" available today in mainstream Linux.. So we are forcing every single user across decades to use "install" because a "remove" package is prophesied and we couldn't reserve this keyword. Well, that's XKCD material.. :-)
But without playing: If you see the current syntax as good enough, that is OK. The point is usability on upcoming command line tools.
- talideon 11y agoYou'd just be replacing one inconsistency with another: you couldn't use any command names as package names or the reverse without some kind of special case, which would be just as bad. The real solution would be to get rid of the split between apt-get, apt-cache, &c., which is a real UI issue, and just use a single 'apt' command. Then you'd have 'apt install package' - two of the usability issues with 'apt-get' go away if you do that: the need to use a bunch of other tools for no good reason and the '-get' wart at the end. And guess what: that happened in Debian and its derivatives a fair while ago. It's just that nobody made a big deal of it. Here's the relevant section of the handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-get.html https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-get.html