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.
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.
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 thanapt update && apt upgrade.yay
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.
How else can you pretend you are ordering the Hulk around?
apt update
apt upgrade
…actually, now I want to see if I can set up an alias like that.
hulk smash firefox
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.