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"Much easier" obviously means something different for you. So many utilities have "-r" meaning "recursive", for example, so it requires a real mental shift to think of it in these terms.

Describing transactions with arguments seems clunky at best.



"Much easier" because you can quickly tell the difference between a package you're installing or removing, versus the action to be taken with the package - as opposed to a bunch of strings of the form [a-z0-9]+ that you can't scan and need to actually read.




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