Post #776987
2026-03-26 03:57 UTC
@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?
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me 2026-03-26 04:03
@eal @whynothugo Yeah the split across different sometimes literally third-party commands is kind of a mess, would probably be a lot better if it could be somewhat unified, even just into a common prefix like apt-{get,update,cache} got which would still allow for those third-party tools.