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77 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford OP 21 May \ parent \ on: Is it just me or is pacman package manager not intuitive devs

Right, that's my sense as well. I'm sure my opinion will evolve with more use.

The double y's throw me though. -Syy

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 21 May

Haha, yeah, I'd have to look up what double y's mean. It's been 3 months since I've used Arch Linux with pacman. I think it means downgrade, so the opposite of one y?

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 21 May

No,

In Pacman, the double yy in the command pacman -Syyu forces a refresh of the package databases even if they appear to be up-to-date.

When I read this yesterday it was a head scratcher

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