[arch-general] replacement for clyde

Loui Chang louipc.ist at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 06:31:25 EDT 2011


On Fri 19 Aug 2011 10:43 -0500, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
> 2011/8/19 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've used yaourt for a couple of years now.
> >> It has always worked for me for the most part, and having a common
> >> command for everything is very convenient for me. alias y=yaourt and
> >> you have one of the simplest ways to do a complete update of your
> >> system, y -Syua
> >>
> >
> > I understand this may seems convenient to some. For me it is just useless
> > and just abstract things from the user.
>
> Definitely a valid opinion, as abstraction might be convenient or
> inexpedience to different audiences, which is why there really isn't a
> right answer.
> Programming also has this quality.

The problem that I've seen is that some users start treating yaourt as
THE package manager and start making bug reports, when the bug exists in
yaourt rather than pacman.



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