Disclaimer: This blog post complains about something inconsequential and silly. However, it's worth talking about.
Has this ever happened to you?
$ sudo snap uninstall x
error: unknown command "uninstall", see 'snap help'.Me too!
Then I go work on a Python project and I do this:
$ pip remove x
ERROR: unknown command "remove"Whoops. pip uses "uninstall". Then I connect to a machine running CentOS and try to uninstall a package using yum:
$ yum uninstall x
No such command: uninstall. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help
It could be a YUM plugin command, try: "yum install 'dnf-command(uninstall)'"Oh, of course. yum uses "remove".
The only program I know of that does it right is npm, accepting both "uninstall" and "remove". Why doesn't every package manager do this?
In case you're curious, here are some other package managers:
| Package manager | Verb |
|---|---|
| apt | remove |
| Brew | uninstall |
| yay | -Rns 🙄 |
| vcpkg | remove |
| cargo | uninstall |
| NuGet | delete |
| conda | remove (it makes me irrationally angry that this is different from pip) |
| npm | remove OR uninstall :D |
| yarn | remove (and only remove) |
| flatpak | uninstall |
| choco | uninstall |
If you leave a comment with any more I'll add it to the table.
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