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You find Zypper a better name than Pacman?
I would say
zypper up
is the better command, just because it's kinda funny.pacman
is better overall, but it gets less fun when you start adding arguments like-Syu
, if only because it's a "language" you have to learn and isn't self-documenting in any way.Haha,
zypper up
is a nice one, didn't know that.Pacman gets huge bonus points though for having a config option to turn to progress bar shown during package installation into a 'pacman' (letter c) chomping from left to right :)
(done by adding
ILoveCandy
under theMisc
options in/etc/pacman.conf
)