Dangling on a hyphen.

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I’ve been messing with paru to gauge its functionality against yay.

    So far I’m unimpressed. The cli display is somewhat tidier/neat. I like that. But when it comes to actually installing something, it’s less than stellar.

    For instance, if I want to skip any confirmation, I can use the undocumented flag --noconfirm. But that only works if I’m passing the flag to install, -S. If, say, I’m searching for a package, simply typing paru <package>, then the interactive menu no longer works. It simply exits with the message ‘nothing to do’.

    yay, on the other hand, works flawlessly with the --noconfirm flag.

    I noticed that paru has some upgrading/updating features that are nice. I might use it once in a while to upgrade/update the system. But that’s pretty much it for now.





  • Well, true. I may have gotten here though Reddit. But now I’m taken aback by what’s happening here.

    I mean, the whole thing is open, FOSS developed, decentralized, being everywhere and at the same time nowhere? Call me crazy, but this in itself is awesome!

    On top of that, I was greeted here by a community of communities where people are kind, helpful, full of beautiful and interesting insights.

    So why would I be thinking of going somewhere else? I’ve posted more comments here in the past weeks than in the last ten years on Reddit. And I’ve done that because I’m genuinely excited with this setting.

    So no, I’m not joining the herd moving to greener pastures. This field is green enough for me.