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.
Why is this an improvement over the software management tool in Yast?
- It has a single dependency (for pkg management) and is entirely separate from YaST. So you won't need to have YaST working to have a GUI way to manage packages.
  They talk about it being a "glimpse of the future" in the release info, so it may suggest a change in approach to how OpenSuSE is configured. Maybe a more modular or streamlined approach to YaST instead of an all-in-one Swiss army knife?
- You don't need to install the rest of Yast. The package manager as the biggest, most complicated part of Yast, that also needed special UI not needed for other parts of Yast is kind of an oddity in terms of development as well, iirc.
  
  So, it's especially useful when you run your system from a floppy.

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