Yay or eos-update to update my system?

[Locutus]

@manuel

@Cphusion

The best method to clean up your system is #rm -rf /*

I know you meant this as a joke, but there are users new to linux who read that and may take it seriously, and they’ll kill their system. So newbies, be warned!

(Even though the command would not delete everything… )

Thanks for saying something but the post should have already been removed. I seriously thought about saying something yesterday but I figured staff would eventually remove the post.

[Cphusion]

@Locutus

Thanks for saying something but the post should have already been removed.

Your talking like I broke the law. The first rule of running anything in the terminal is don’t run any commands you find on the internet which you don’t understand.

[anthony93]

@Cphusion

Your talking like I broke the law. The first rule of running anything in the terminal is don’t run any commands you find on the internet which you don’t understand.

You’re assuming that all newbies know this, which may not be the case.

My recommendation is that you should at least edit the post (the same post with the joke) to clarify that it was intended as a joke. Add a postscript or something. Granted, you did clarify your intent in a later post, it’s still possible for people to miss it.

[Cphusion]

@Cphusion

Edit: This was meant as a joke, so don’t run this. First rule of running anything in the terminal, don’t run any command you find on the internet that you don’t understand.
The best method to clean up your system is #rm -rf /*

Is this better?

[anthony93]

@Cphusion

Is this better?

It is, at least in my opinion. That way, there’s no room for doubt.

Although for the joke to “work”, maybe the clarification should be added as a postscript.

[Cphusion]

I edited my original post, can you add that edit to the part you quoted, that way there is no confusion for anyone that comes across this.

[manuel]

Added a small postscript to my post.

[Locutus]

Thanks much appreciated.

[elektrik]

I remember seeing that sentiment, and it did contribute to my decision to switch to paru from yay.

However, I was also convinced by some of the other advertised improvements made to the behavior, parallelizing downloads, and being written in Rust.

paruz is an essential package that gets instantly installed after paru. Fuzzy search for package, and shows the info in a side pane.

[thingsiplay]

About paruz, funny enough I just uploaded a little script that does something similar for yay (fuzzy search menu + showing info on the side): Post your handy utility scripts! - #195 by thingsiplay But I left it for installed packages only, as searching and displaying info from the repo with each keystroke would probably ddos them if multiple users would do this. Glad someone figured out how to do it properly.