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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
You could easilly just make a bash script for that
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 just alias it to "sysup" on every new system.
How is "sync" the expected command to install a package?
The same way as specifying
ssbefore and afteriinffmpegdoing 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