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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?

Jokes aside, paru.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality.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.

[–] PizzaDeposit@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Because it's written in rust ofcourse.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also sounds much happier, yay!

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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because paru has a working sudoloop and config, unlike yay.

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[–] Cwilliams 4 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Cwilliams 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda meant it as a joke, but that's actually super cool

[–] TrustingZebra@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be slower. This tries all of the tools in parallel.

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

doesn't that do all of them together, possibly making you install it multiple times ?

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The idea is that only one will succeed. Look, it is a comic not a production-ready solution.

[–] ThatHermanoGuy@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

Don't care, ship it now!

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[–] ultra@feddit.ro 42 points 1 year ago

Nix entered the chat

[–] taanegl 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Microsoft: "winget!"

Nobody asked you, Microsoft. Go back to making compact nuclear reactors, because honestly that's based AF.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wasn't a thing yet when the comic was made; technology advances so quickly...

[–] taanegl 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it's also a Windows exclusive - so it's just usable on the Windows platform, but it's a package managed for windows! winget install gimp.GIMP installs gimp, no browser necessary =)

Check the link though. Microsoft might pull a sneaky in the future. "All Winget packages will be bundled with telemetry for security" or something like that.

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] drwho 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sudo pacman -Sy $1

There you go.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 1 year ago

It doesn't even run detached. Literally unrunnable.

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“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

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they asked for an explanation, but thanks anyways!

ExplainXKCD's a great site, more XKCD readers should know about it!

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Cwilliams 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, thanks!

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
flatpak install "$1"
snap install "$1"
appimage-cli-tool install "$1"
[–] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

cd "$1" && docker-compose up -d

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 18 points 1 year ago

Where's sudo emerge -avq $1?? How dare you omit it?! Blasphemy!

[–] pbsds@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

The final fallback should be robodialing some tech support service and provide TeamViewer credentials

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

You're gonna need a -y on apt-get

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

wait.. no alpine apk?! :)

[–] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are you trying to acomplish with it?

It looks to me like XY Problem

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago

They're trying to accomplish a joke.

[–] subcytoplasm@l.tta.wtf 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

nix-shell -p "$1"

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[–] Sentientted@monero.town 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] monetize_nothing@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

winget install choco install scoop install

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

gam (GitHub Application Manager)

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago
[–] electromage@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Missing pkcon

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Unless you have a pretty exotic architecture, i.e neither x86 nor ARM, then arguably Docker "should" be "enough".

[–] Overlock@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

xbps-install ?

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