I am a long time user of the Fedora operating system. It’s very good quality, with a lot of funding from Red Hat (who use it to crowd-source testing for their commercial product Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

On Fedora you use a command named dnf to install and remove packages. The absolute worst design decision of Fedora is this:

• To install a package: dnf install
• To uninstall a package: dnf remove

If I had a dollar for every time I typed dnf uninstall foo and got an error then I’d be able to stage a lavish wedding in Venice by now.

As a Nushell user, I finally spent 5 minutes to fix this forever by adding the following to my ~/.config/nushell/config.nu file:

def "dnf uninstall" […packages: string] {
    dnf remove …$packages
}

(I also read online about a dnf alias command that might solve this, but it isn’t available for me for whatever reason).

That’s all for today!