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 @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 `-ps` mode to my "searchall" script to query PyPI via w3m, I don't see why they couldn't have done something similar.
https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/searchall
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.