because the name XQWKPk6r was taken
Jesus, they use Zypper instead of 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…
Absolutely awful name
It’s temporary https://github.com/shundhammer/yqpkg/issues/19
Did they intentionally choose a name thats difficult to type? Assuming the command is
yqpkgI’d want to murder whoever picked the name while trying to use it.
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.
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.
