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I tried switching to nix, but homebrew's command line argument "design" has spoiled me. With homebrew I'm usually able to guess command arguments, where as with
by shpx 10y ago
I tried switching to nix, but homebrew's command line argument "design" has spoiled me. With homebrew I'm usually able to guess command arguments, where as with every other package manager I have to google when I want to do something I haven't done before.
For example, I want to search for a package name before installing. I'm guessing it's just "brew search pkg"... yup. Now what do I do with nix? Google says it's "nix -qa pkg", that totally makes sense, and I just love how I have to memorize some arcane letters.
This is true for virtually every linux package manager I've tried (wtf is apt-cache? I can't remember pacman commands after using it for a year). Seriously, typing anything with a minus sign is slower than typing word, so what's even the point? At this point I won't (choose to) use a package manager that doesn't get this right.
- SkyMarshal 10y agoHaha, this is true, Nix's commandline is not exactly intuitive. I've been using apt, vim, and other similarly unintuitive stuff for a long time though so I just deal with it or script it, but totally understand anyone who prefers something more semantic.