Not that confusing really - the two applications couldn&#x27;t be more different in use.<p>&quot;Pacman&quot; is abbreviated from &quot;package manager&quot; while &quot;Pac-Man&quot; is derived from &quot;Puck Man&quot;, named so because the yellow avatar looked like a hockey puck. (the reason for the name change is quite interesting too[1]).<p>While it&#x27;s true that the ArchLinux devs do play on the name similarities (there&#x27;s even an easter egg to turn the `pacman` progress bar into a little Pac-Man eating up ASCII pills[2]), I think most people who might confuse the two wouldn&#x27;t be familiar with the package manager anyway. And those who are familiar with `pacman` are likely technical enough to tell the difference.<p>[1] Renamed because of worries that some US audiences might vandalise the <i>P</i>uck into <i>F</i>uck.<p>[2] Put &#x27;ILoveCandy&#x27; (without quotes) under the [options] in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;pacman.conf