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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by da39a3ee on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:21AM (#29448453)
Why do you need a package manager if you have a statically linked executable? Can't you just save it in ~/bin and have that in PATH? (Users who can't do that shouldn't be using CLI would be the argument I guess.)
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Re:Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've... by afarrell on Sunday December 05, 2021 @07:48AM (#29448869)
So that people can install and update the tools via the same habits they’ve already learned.

> Users who can’t do that shouldn’t be using CLI

Users who can do that will still find it an odd departure from convention.

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