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electromage ,

Missing pkcon

palordrolap ,

Is YaST* still a thing? Surprised Randall hasn't touched/included *SuSE. Then again, maybe the joke was already long enough.

Bitrot ,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It would be zypper these days.

ultra ,

Should’ve used “||”

kevincox ,
@kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

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

20gramsWrench ,

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

kevincox ,
@kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

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

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Ignoring you’re right there are plenty of instances where a common name would carry over multiple install options.

What I’d rather is to allow two parameters. The tool should be included as well as the package so ‘install apt openjdk’ or ’ install npm yarn’

Of course the problem then becomes a lot of these install apps have their own set of parameters.

Now I’m curious if anyone has written a universal installer.

zwekihoyy ,

I’ve been working on one for a minute but the best solution I’ve come up with is searching every package manager when search is invoked but otherwise requiring the package manager to be declared via pkgman.package for installs/removes etc.

kevincox ,
@kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

You are missing the point. The author is satirizing the fact that there are so many tools and patterns that do basically the same thing. The author doesn’t want to bother figuring out what installation method this particular tool recommends. So they have this script so that he can run geterinstalled inkscape and let the computer figure out which one works.

If you were going to write geterinstalled pip foo you may as well just run pip install foo.

Also note the title-text, which addresses this exact issue:

The failures usually don’t hurt anything, and if it installs several versions, it increases the chance that one of them is right. […]

xkcd.com/1654/

whoisearth ,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Not missing the point. I know it’s satire. As a thought experiment it got me interested though nothing more.

ThatHermanoGuy ,

Don’t care, ship it now!

ultra ,

Nix entered the chat

Illecors ,

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

monetize_nothing ,

winget install choco install scoop install

yum13241 ,

WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?

Jokes aside, paru.

GigglyBobble ,

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.

Cwilliams OP ,

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)

PizzaDeposit ,

Because it’s written in rust ofcourse.

30p87 ,

It also sounds much happier, yay!

FUsername ,

Kid you not, that was my first reason to adopt it (next to having a short name).

yum13241 ,

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

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

Could you elaborate?

yum13241 ,

yay sometimes asks for sudo even when sudoloop is on, and paru’s config is in an easy to find location.

Oh, and you can change the program paru uses for root access.

mogoh , 

<span style="color:#323232;">flatpak install "$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">snap install "$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">appimage-cli-tool install "$1"
</span>
norgur ,
@norgur@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

cd “$1” && docker-compose up -d

passepartout ,

flatpak good snap bad, amirite?

taaz ,

Maybe also asdf-vm.com

BaalInvoker ,

What are you trying to acomplish with it?

It looks to me like XY Problem

bob_lemon ,

They’re trying to accomplish a joke.

noodlejetski ,

topgrade? github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade

Cwilliams OP ,

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

TrustingZebra ,

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.

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