Every package is already installed

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There is also an accompanying site https://omnibin.dev/ for you to browse

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Cool hack! But… why put it in a bin directory when these commands exist?
I’m all for fun hacks that don’t really accomplish anything, but it’s weird that this does not even mention mvs run/shell.

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They are different?
mvs lets you pick individual packages across the multiverse but this just adds them all – I guess it’s mvs-maximallized

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I don’t see the real use-case where the difference between between mvs run package@version and running package@version from PATH which is essentially an alias to that (if I’m reading this correctly) matters.

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How does it handle executables with the same name?

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A few rules here: Using it · omnibin

  1. an attribute named after the executable beats one that is not

  2. a newer last-seen date beats an older

  3. a shorter attribute name beats a longer

  4. lexicogrpahic sort afterwards

eg. python3 comes from the python3 attribute rather than from python3Full, and a bare name resolves to the same package for everybody.

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Pretty sure it’s meant to be a more ergonomic form of comma, which just downloads the binaries you need to run the commands you want. It’s similar to prepending comma’s , to every command I guess. (EDIT: plus some version magic)

It’s an interesting idea to consider, even if I don’t consider it an interesting idea for my setups.

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