• Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      7 days ago

      You will need to use it at some point. With silverblue it is rpm-ostree and with bootable containers it is dnf in a Dockerfile.

      • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I’m on Aurora. I don’t have to use rpm-ostree (bootc in the future). I can use it, but I don’t have to. Most of my software needs are covered by flatpak and homebrew. I also don’t have to update packages in my distrobox containers. Those are managed for me, too.

        I love tinkering with stuff, but updating packages is nothing more than a chore. I’d rather be doing the fun stuff.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    464·
    7 days ago

    I still like pacman’s syntax the most due to it being close to what one expects from a normal cli program. Also, I’m lazy, and pacman -Syu, for example, is way faster to type than apt update && apt upgrade.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      I’m lazy, so I prefer to not remember what half a dozen cryptic flags stand for.

      I just find disappointing that there’s no long form to these options and they don’t make much mnemonic sense either. Feels like the authors just picked the first letter available they came across with zero regard to readability or usability.

      • fl42v@lemmy.ml
        3·
        6 days ago

        The same way as specifying ss before and after i in ffmpeg doing different stuff or that moment when sysd could delete your homedir some time ago when you asked it to clear the tempfiles. I.e, it’s not; that’s what manpages are for

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      151·
      7 days ago

      Someone said they found the pacman syntax confusing at the 37c3 arch user meetup

      yeah that was not well received lol.

      It’s very clean and I love the categories of actions (Database/Files/Query/Remove/Sync/Deptest/Upgrade) that each support -h individually.

  • y0din@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 days ago

    does gentoos emerge --rageclean count?

    [–unmerge, -C WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all matching packages following a counter governed by CLEAN_DELAY. This does no checking of dependencies, so it may remove packages necessary for the proper operation of your system. Its arguments can be atoms or ebuilds. For a dependency aware version of --unmerge, use --depclean or --prune. For a version with CLEAN_DELAY=0, use --rage-clean.

    (edit, added context from “man emerge”, rageclean mentioned the last sentence)