• fl42v@lemmy.ml
    454·
    8 months 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.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      151·
      8 months 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.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 months 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·
        8 months 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

  • y0din@lemmy.world
    10·
    8 months 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)