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submitted 1 year ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

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[-] nycki@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pacman and nix are both really neat conceptually but they both fail at the most obvious usability test, which is "I just want to install a package"; its like exiting vim all over again.

edit: yes, I know you can set an alias to pacman -Sy or whatever, but if you need to set up an alias for a command to be usable, then I can't in good faith recommend that OS to anyone, and I don't want to use an OS I wouldn't recommend to others.

[-] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't understand how you could make installing vim simpler than pacman -S vim? Is it about "-S" being less obvious than "install"?

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 21 points 1 year ago

How about pacman install vim or pacman --install vim or pacman -i vim

What the heck does S mean?! What's all the syncing nonsense. A million obscure parameters that are all single letter, don't tie in with anything meaningful. You might be used to it, but it's a mess of parameters.

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

My guess is it’s called sync because it’s the “do stuff directly relating to remote repository” sub-command, including remote repo search (--sync --search) and syncing package database/updating packages (--sync --refresh --sysupgrade). Notably, installing or updating a local package file you do with --upgrade.

A lot of package managers just have separate commands instead. It’s just a matter of organization.

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