GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager

Post by Aeolun » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 6:38 AM UTC

therein wrote: post #20

askmike wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not always about the complexity of the solution. This is a great example of something annoying a lot of people here can identify with (myself included). I'd say this annoys a lot of people whose job it is to automate things, and this is the first proposed solution I see. Who cares it's a hacked together small program with if statements? It's not any less interesting than a proposal for a new standard in a 50 pag…

(1) There are many flags to these commands that you will need to know on a per platform basis anyway. (2) Package names aren't always identical across platforms, at least not enough that you can rely on that. It is a low-cost attempt to solve a problem that in my opinion doesn't really exist and it doesn't even do a great job doing that due to the points above. For instance if you want to use pacman without knowing w…

Post by askmike » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC

therein wrote: post #20

askmike wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not always about the complexity of the solution. This is a great example of something annoying a lot of people here can identify with (myself included). I'd say this annoys a lot of people whose job it is to automate things, and this is the first proposed solution I see. Who cares it's a hacked together small program with if statements? It's not any less interesting than a proposal for a new standard in a 50 pag…

(1) There are many flags to these commands that you will need to know on a per platform basis anyway. (2) Package names aren't always identical across platforms, at least not enough that you can rely on that. It is a low-cost attempt to solve a problem that in my opinion doesn't really exist and it doesn't even do a great job doing that due to the points above. For instance if you want to use pacman without knowing w…

Post by vbernat » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 7:28 AM UTC

Post by qznc » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

therein wrote: post #20

askmike wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not always about the complexity of the solution. This is a great example of something annoying a lot of people here can identify with (myself included). I'd say this annoys a lot of people whose job it is to automate things, and this is the first proposed solution I see. Who cares it's a hacked together small program with if statements? It's not any less interesting than a proposal for a new standard in a 50 pag…

(1) There are many flags to these commands that you will need to know on a per platform basis anyway. (2) Package names aren't always identical across platforms, at least not enough that you can rely on that. It is a low-cost attempt to solve a problem that in my opinion doesn't really exist and it doesn't even do a great job doing that due to the points above. For instance if you want to use pacman without knowing w…

Post by xaduha » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 8:39 AM UTC

askmike wrote: post #16

therein wrote: post #11

It seems nowadays people just upvote based on just the title. This is a switch statement wrapper around package managers, on the front-page of HN.

It's not always about the complexity of the solution. This is a great example of something annoying a lot of people here can identify with (myself included). I'd say this annoys a lot of people whose job it is to automate things, and this is the first proposed solution I see. Who cares it's a hacked together small program with if statements? It's not any less interesting than a proposal for a new standard in a 50 pag…