WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?
Jokes aside, paru.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality. I prefer yay.
Because it's written in rust ofcourse.
It also sounds much happier, yay!
Kid you not, that was my first reason to adopt it (next to having a short name).
I honestly go back and forth. Depends on which one I decide to try next time I reinstall. I actually used aura for a while, but switched back to yay for the --sudo flag. (I use opendoas)
topgrade? https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
Kinda meant it as a joke, but that's actually super cool
It's a great tool but note that by default it upgrades EVERYTHING, up to and including production cloud environments if you are connected to any.
Should've used "||"
That would be slower. This tries all of the tools in parallel.
doesn't that do all of them together, possibly making you install it multiple times ?
The idea is that only one will succeed. Look, it is a comic not a production-ready solution.
Don't care, ship it now!
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Nix entered the chat
Microsoft: "winget!"
Nobody asked you, Microsoft. Go back to making compact nuclear reactors, because honestly that's based AF.
wasn't a thing yet when the comic was made; technology advances so quickly...
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Where pacman?
sudo pacman -Sy $1
There you go.
It doesn't even run detached. Literally unrunnable.
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“The script accepts the name of a program or package as an argument when you run it. This value is then referenced as "$1" (argument number 1). Everywhere the script says "$1", it substitutes in the name of the package you gave it. The end result is the name being tried against a large number of software repositories and package managers, and hopefully, at least one of them will be appropriate and the program will be successfully installed.”
Source: explain XKCD
Yep, thanks!
I don't think they asked for an explanation, but thanks anyways!
ExplainXKCD's a great site, more XKCD readers should know about it!
Nobody asked, but I needed it. Thought that perhaps I’m not alone, so now that I have the answer, might as well share it here.
That sonds like a good thought process, I'll try it too
flatpak install "$1"
snap install "$1"
appimage-cli-tool install "$1"
cd "$1" && docker-compose up -d
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Where's sudo emerge -avq $1?? How dare you omit it?! Blasphemy!
You're gonna need a -y on apt-get
The final fallback should be robodialing some tech support service and provide TeamViewer credentials
wait.. no alpine apk?! :)
nix-shell -p "$1"
gam (GitHub Application Manager)
I am not the most experienced by any means, but wouldn't it be better to run it with a ";" in the spot off all of the "&" so that way if one of the commands fail it doesn't stop mid script?
Is YaST* still a thing? Surprised Randall hasn't touched/included *SuSE. Then again, maybe the joke was already long enough.
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emerge!
winget install choco install scoop install
Missing pkcon
Unless you have a pretty exotic architecture, i.e neither x86 nor ARM, then arguably Docker "should" be "enough".
xbps-install ?
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