Can you avoid querying for a texture location in OpenGL?

The way I learnt to send a texture to a shader is more or less

//Use program //Bind texture to the texture unit to its appropriate target glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0 + texture_unit); glBindTexture(target, textureID); //Get the uniform location in the program and attach the texture unit GLuint location = /*get the location somewhow*/; glUniform1i(location,texture_unit); 

However when dealing with buffers and SSBOS rather than trying to find a location through a string name, the object is declared as:

layout(std430, binding = 2) buffer texture_meta_data 

For example. This means that the SSBO is to be bound at binding point 2

And then on the C++ side one does something like

glBindBufferBase(GL_SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER, 2, SSBOID); 

To bind the object to the binding point.

How can you do the same with textures?