🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
@fastfinge@interfree.ca
Today's out of context error: "Failed to install weasel". Umm, well, okay. Why do computer people always name everything like this? Am I some day going to be wondering if the weasel demon is working in my computer? It was fine back when everyone knew what bits they were installing and what they were for. But now one package has five hundred dependencies, and all of those packages each depend on a hundred other things, and we're left wondering why we need to install the weasel into our computers, and having no idea why we can't, even if we knew why we should in the first place. Nobody would name a critical function or variable in the code "weasel" or "gimp" or "firefox" or whatever. Maybe we should start enforcing the same convention on packages and programs. "photo-editor" and "web-browser" and so on. I wonder how many casual Linux users know what a glibc or a fprobe is or why they need one?
