What package manager(s) do you prefer?
What features does your ideal package manager have?
Package Managers
Zachary Fisher
Jack Wright
>What package manager(s) do you prefer?
gentoo
>What features does your ideal package manager have?
ability to install gentoo
Samuel Butler
>What package manager(s) do you prefer?
apt, because I'm familiar with it and it Just Werks
Jace Gomez
apt ftw
Daniel Robinson
If package managers are so great then why are there so many damn package managers it's almost like package management is an anti pattern or something...
Parker Anderson
pkgtools
Caleb Bell
started with apt, still like it and tend to prefer debian-based distros.
Gabriel Wood
apt because the commands are easy to remember.
Hudson Cruz
ITT: People who think talking about package managers is discussion worthy.
It’s a fucking package manger, it not something thing remotely special .
Andrew Morris
zypper, because is so smart, it even start when you type apt by mistake.
Chase Ross
>anti pattern
>t. i don't know what I'm talking about
The reason there are so many pacmans is because package management, unsuprisingly, is an incredibly difficult problem to solve and there are more than a million different ways to approach the problem.
What to do about different versions of the same package?
Where to get packages from?
How to update packages (latest diff, earliest diff,something else)?
Its kind of like git and similar version control systems except about 100x more complex (source vs bin debate not withstanding).
> it not something thing remotely special .
why are you posting self portraits on an anonymous basket weaving forum?
Angel Smith
>wojack
>filename
>that spacing
don't you have a 5G thread to bump?
Lucas Moore
imagine a package manager
now
imagine a package manager to rule them all
npm, gem, pacman, apt, yum, cargo. pip, Bower, Maven
Noah Smith
Yes, Snaps.
Ryder Bailey
can you show me how to host my own snap repo?
Bentley Sanchez
not being the slackware package manager is a must.
dnf + rpm is the best.
It has a history of transactions, so you can undo certain actions or go back to some state of installed packages just like before.
No bullshit where you try to delete one package and the whole operative system gets deleted (debian).
But is a bit slow to fetch metadata and give autocompletions.
So I just want a faster dnf
Hudson Martin
I like yum desu because it's what I learned on and all the companies I've worked for have been centos based so it's easy for me to use. Really ease of use is what I look for in a package manager. Pacman is cool but remembering all those options is pretty aids.
Evan Richardson
>it even start when you type apt by mistake
kek is this even real
Jack Robinson
>don't you have a 5G thread to bump?
TOP KEK
Tyler Ramirez
literally guix, we work to bring packages from all other managers into it, and to make importers that allow you to automatically generate packages from other managers
Nicholas Hall
i fucking love pacman, wish i had it on debian
Dominic Lopez
I like pacman. The only thing I would change is that when you are installing packages as dependencies manually (with --asdeps), you were given to specify the package it should be a dependency to.
Brayden Russell
so you mean apt style syntax and mnemonics instead of flags right?
Like:
manager install package instead of
manager -Siyu package
Anthony Parker
of fuck i meant
manager install package
vs
manager -i package
Luis Brooks
Apt just werks. I also like how cargo handles dependencies and that it is used from the development process to package installation
Elijah Torres
apt/Apper and Discover. I hope Discover gets improved so that this issue gets basically settled once and for all.
As a start I think some easy options for auto-updating would be useful to many.