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Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line

Posted by Soulskill on from the baby-steps dept.

aojensen writes: ExtremeTech reports that the most recent build of Windows 10 Technical Preview shows that Windows is finally getting a package manager. The package manager is built for the PowerShell command line based on OneGet. OneGet is a command line utility for PowerShell very similar to classic Linux utilities such as apt-get and yum, which enable administrators and power users comfortable with the command line to install software packages without the need for a graphical installer. ExtremeTech emphasizes that "you can open up PowerShell and use OneGet to install thousands of applications with commands such as Find-Package VLC and Install-Package Firefox." It's a missing feature Linux advocates have long used to argue against Windows in terms of automation and scale. The package manage is open to any software repository and is based on the Chocolatey format for defining package repositories."

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  1. We can do that thing you like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everything except open-sourcing the code that is.

    1. Re:We can do that thing you like by khasim · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Installing via the command line is nice. But it isn't what I want.

      I want a package system that locks the files down so that package X owns abc.dll and will not allow package Y to overwrite it.

      And searchable. What package installed abc.dll? What packages depend upon that package?

    2. Re:We can do that thing you like by war4peace · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Disk space ain't that cheap, especially if you install the applications on a SSD. Furthermore, a large application is using literally gigabytes of shared DLLs which would otherwise be saved separately. Disk space usage would astronomically increase.

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  2. Oh boy, another infection vector by Russ1642 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is just an easy way to install software without much popping up on the screen to alert the users. I wonder how long it'll be before reports of infections using this installation method. What we really want is someone typing Install-Package Chrom and getting infected because of a typo.

  3. A step in the right direction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, I much prefer a billion config files littering the file system.

  4. Re:Yay! Another Unix! by BitZtream · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when were package managers a UNIX thing?

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  5. Royality for Open Source! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Micro$oft should pay a royalty fee of 10$, to open source projects, on every copy of windows 10+ for including this idea in their software. It's pay back time Micro$oft!

  6. windows is finally growing up. by Murdoch5 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Big deal Linux has had this for a long time.