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mcilloni

Re: on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:09PM (#38116737)
I wrote this guide following a bunch of notes I wrote while helping people setting up their systems on USB drives - plus a bit extra. Hopefully it may be useful to someone!
I always find ironic how the allegedly "communist" Chinese regime managed to create a system that basically has exploited workers for decades, in ways that are much worse than capitalistic countries. It really requires a lot of doublespeak to justify that.
Re:GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:09AM (#18159604)
This kind of task is exactly what good old Perl was designed for.
Re:GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager on Sunday October 07, 2018 @04:50AM (#18159547)
... why not PackageKit?

pkcon is a good tool, even if a bit janky, that hides well lots of the differences between the several package managers it supports.