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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@pinskia @cobweb

lol, CPAN-chan is doing her best, leave her be. XD

Yes, it's about pip and rust. And basically everything else that calls itself a package manager (or something suggesting a package manager), but "mails it in" for essential features.

pip removed the search feature years ago, and I'm still salty about it. ;)

@RL_Dane @cobweb You missed the `(j/k)` part. And cpan is 10x better than rust and pip. rust package manager is just to show there are many duplicated packages that might have security holes in it (not due to memory issues though).

@pinskia @cobweb

Oh, I caught it. That's why I used "CPAN-chan" ;)

I haven't used CPAN in a while, but I remember liking CPANPLUS a lot in the olden days.

@RL_Dane @pinskia @cobweb
Didn't their reason for removing it have something to do with security rather than their uncontrollable desire to make you open a web browser?🤔
And cargo — it might seem too complicated, but as someone who ported a few things to platforms that the dev of original software never had in mind, I truly appreciate how flexible it is by letting you update some things, but not the others, and showing you the graph to help you figure how it resolves dependencies.

@m0xee @pinskia @cobweb

I don't remember the original rationale, but given that my "fix" for that decision was just to add a `-p` mode to my "searchall" script to query PyPI via w3m, I don't see why they couldn't have done something similar.

codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/sr

Cargo's not terrible, especially with cargo-update.

iamb always fails to update for some reason. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot it yet. I feel I'd quickly get in waaaay over my head.

Codeberg.orgscripts/searchall at mainscripts - Some of my scripts that I wrote, which I use daily