7mo ago

OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool

www.phoronix.com

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because the name XQWKPk6r was taken
Jesus, they use Zypper ~~instead of~~ as opposed to APT, now this. Do they have some kind of a traditional ritual of getting high before naming these things?
- Apparently, the name was just the obvious technical name, since they started this during a hackathon where they didn't want to spend time on naming. And supposedly, they're also still looking for name suggestions, but yeah, I do find it slightly weird to publicly announce the name, if they are still planning to change it...
  
  Meh… I find it refreshing that they set aside formality. It’s part of what makes the Linux world a little different in a good way. Unlike the big corporate world with lots of Capital letters and ™ legal © symbols everywhere.
- zypper predates apt (which isn't the same as apt-get)
  
  Well yeah but my point was really just that it’s a goofy name. Not instead of, more like as opposed to.
  P.S. interesting factoid that I didn’t know. Thanks. But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper? Because that’s sufficient.
Absolutely awful name
- It's temporary https://github.com/shundhammer/yqpkg/issues/19
- Did they intentionally choose a name that’s difficult to type? Assuming the command is yqpkg I’d want to murder whoever picked the name while trying to use it.
  
  Wow I didn't even think about the ease of typing that but....yeah lol
I'm sure there's a relevant XKCD, but I'm too lazy to link it.
Another package manager? Really? Why?
- Not a package manager. Just a front end for zypper.
  
  Well, more precisely a frontend for libzypp. Zypper is itself a frontend for libzypp.
How many packaging tools does OpenSUSE have, now? 6?
And can you update Tumbleweed in a GUI with this?
- According to the very short article, this is merely a GUI for libzypp.
That's not a very appealing name for a tool, IMHO.

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