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One more addition to my rant here - could we pick even more ridiculous, unintuitive names for package manager binaries? zypper? apt-get? yum? xbps-install? pacm
by _vdpp 5y ago
One more addition to my rant here - could we pick even more ridiculous, unintuitive names for package manager binaries? zypper? apt-get? yum? xbps-install? pacman at least kind of reminds you of “package manager”. This isn’t meant to dump all over the hard work that goes into all these. I suppose too that “install” is taken by a command which copies files with certain flags (anyone ever use this?).
Every one of these uses different flags too, so for someone who uses a number of different distros it’s a huge pain to remember them and switch back and forth.
FreeBSD at least uses the eminently sensible “pkg” command with flags like “search” and “add.”