Post #1385713
2026-03-26 03:13 UTC
@whynothugo Yeah that one is pretty noticeable when you're not a regular Arch user.
Sometimes I feel like emerge and related gentoo tools could also do better but it's still much better than the pacman situation where you always need flags which also don't usually associate nicely to a related word (like ironically pacman -Qo can make sense, but pacman -S and pacman -Qi don't really).
And thankfully stuff like pkg/pkgadd/pkg_add, apt, apk, pkgin, zypper, dnf, yum, … don't have the same design flaws (although they have their share of other flaws ^^).
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@eal@shinonome.technology 2026-03-26 03:57
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @whynothugo@fosstodon.org That's one of the worse parts of gentoo for me, actually portage is conceptually great once you have a mental model of how things should work, but unfortunately the actual tools are fragmented over several loosely related commands and doing the less common operations is frustrating (was it equery or portageq or eix or emerge I need for this? how did I prepare an ebuild for patching again? what flavour of dispatch-conf trouble is worth it this time?