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Nuno Brito, original post author. Sorry to disappoint but professionally administrating Linux machines since 2004, started as end-user in 1998 and I work with
by nunobrito 11y ago
Nuno Brito, original post author.
Sorry to disappoint but professionally administrating Linux machines since 2004, started as end-user in 1998 and I work with whatever machines are available. My apologies if the blog post is read as an attack on apt-get, this is not the case.
It is just an example. Not saying that we can/should change apt-get, there was apt already made for that purpose. This example is only to raise attention for upcoming command line tools and respective authors to think about the most frequent use-case scenarios and then make them as straightforward as humanly possible.
- yrro 11y agoNo worries; as I say I am clearly reading too much into the original throwaway quote!
- cyphar 11y agoDebian isn't the only system on the block, and apt isn't the only package manager. OpenSUSE has zypper (which IMO has a much better interface and supports patches to packages). Arch has pacman (which has less features, but is great for normal use on your local machine, I wouldn't recommend it for administrating a server -- not just because it's rolling release). apt has a very janky interface overall, there are better alternatives IMO.