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I meant, personally, for power utilities, I try to use statically-compiled tools rather than scripts... What the spreading misinformation part about? :)

• burntsushi 6y ago
  Because tools like ripgrep are in your Linux distros package repos. You don't need to update them manually.
  • ducktective 6y ago
    Well I'm on Xubuntu 18.04 and none of them are available on official repos and I do manually fetch the binaries from their repos (thanks for your awesome work and for providing `deb`s for rg btw ;) ) but yeah my observation was based on empirical evidence on older distros...things seem to have changed... https://repology.org/project/ripgrep/versions https://repology.org/project/ripgrep/versions https://repology.org/project/fd-find/versions https://repology.org/project/fd-find/versions https://repology.org/project/fzf/versions https://repology.org/project/fzf/versions Still I find quite a lot of Rust apps that I like to use but there is not a distro package for them and the repos don't provide a binary or a deb or PPA. At least with Python repos, because of the nature of scripting vs compiled languages, I can simply isolate anything with a simple `pipx install app`
    • burntsushi 6y ago
      I don't know what pipx is, but `cargo install ripgrep` works.