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📦 The default bucket for Scoop.

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📦 The default bucket for Scoop.

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Observed mentions: 2021-04-17 20:11:29 UTC to 2024-09-18 06:06:56 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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lafrenierejm·Sep 18, 2024
> What dependencies does it install For all of the built-in adapters to work, you'll need ffmpeg, pandoc, and poppler-utils. See the Scoop package [1] for a specific example of this. > does it create a bunch of caches, that clog up storage and/or memory? YMMV, but in my opinion ripgrep-all is pretty conservative in its caching. The cache files are all isolated to a single directory (whose location respects OS convention) and their contents are limited to plaintext that required processing to extract. [1]: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/blob/master/bucket/rg...
In Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.
bscphil·Mar 3, 2022
As I see it, part of the drive behind tools like Scoop is to overcome the limitations of the binary-shipping strategy common to Windows developers. They are successful at this, I agree, but only partially successful. They come from the tradition of programs like Ninite, which were explicitly built as ways to make the binary approach suck less than it did before. I see the success of these programs as essentially stemming from the insertion of user interests in the form of a maintainer-like process. Sure, they're still working with the binaries, but the actual process of installing and managing these binaries is controlled by users, for users: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/tree/master/bucket This means that you get moderation and in many cases modification to the behavior of the program. In a freeware environment like Windows that
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's full of shitware, at the very least you can in many cases strip out the ads. That's absolutely not nothing, but at the end of the day it comes from a group of user-maintainers stepping up and saying to developers that no, you cannot simply do whatever you want on my system with your software. That's ... sort of the whole point of a software distribution, in the Linux world! When I want the latest version of a CLI tool on Linux, I simply `pacman -S package`. That's it; one command. I don't see how it could be any simpler or better than that, and on top of that I'm getting the benefits of moderation and integration with the rest of my system. Perhaps you are emphasizing latest version here, and hinting that you don't get that on Linux distros? That depends entirely on the distro; a software distribution is (roughly) a collection of user interests. An Arch user wants (and gets) the latest versions of all upstream software. A Debian user does not want this or see constant updating to the latest version as an advantage, so that's not what they get.
In Single binary executable packages
jamesgeck0·Apr 17, 2021
Note that the Scoop project is pretty much dead. The Scoop GCC manifest (and everything that depends on it) has been broken since January. GCC for Windows is now distributed using an unsupported archive format, and development to support that format has stalled out. https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/issues/1752 Someone made a workaround patch using a different GCC mirror, but it's been sitting open for a month. https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/pull/1933 One of the maintainers seems to be forking the scoop client, but their fork still uses the unmaintained main package bucket. https://github.com/Ash258/Scoop-Core
In WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back

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