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Re:Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean by duggan on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:50AM (#18460830)
The command line has the advantage of presenting portable, terse and editable instructions that can be cobbled together into a recipe which can be abstracted and automated.

It's a very powerful interface.

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Re:Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean by gambler on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:18PM (#18461766)
Web interfaces are used by half the population of the planet. Any command you run in a shell can be represented by a URL, an HTML tag or a form. URLs and HTML have editable text representations, and they also have semantics, standard composition rules and generic UI.

Any "recipe" you're getting is likely something you get from a web page to begin with. That can be a tool for composition and automation on it own.

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Re:Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean by kaishiro on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:46PM (#18463712)
So very few of those web interfaces used by half the population of the planet actually utilize semantics, standard composition rules, and generic UIs - even though they're available.
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Re:Deploying Mastodon on Digital Ocean by craftyguy on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:47PM (#18465905)
> Any "recipe" you're getting

Not necessarily. Distro package maintainers use and construct recipes that are not web pages, in order to allow folks to install complex software with, in many cases, one click.

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