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in reply to TGhost [She/Her]

Omg apt is like the worst UI there is.

Have a look at nala! It needs some depencies but is a huge upgrade

in reply to Pantherina

Ah ah i will one day.

I clearly agree, apt is ugly and even synaptic making it better. But like i said, while ago when I used synaptic I did break my packages and I got to use dpkg and apt, to repair.

Since, I guess, I'm on a PTSD about it and now just use apt or dpkg, when using a Debian or Debian based system.

But I will listen to you, and for sure will give it a try

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in reply to TGhost [She/Her]

Nala is an apt wrapper, it just displays stuff better, automates updates and automatically chooses the fastest mirror (thats the stuff I know)
in reply to TGhost [She/Her]

I dont know why a (tui) wrapper should cause stuff apt doesnt. Its likely an apt problem.
in reply to Pantherina

No that was an synaptic issue, dont remember now the specific issue,
But it didnt managed well, certainly a bug at the bad moment for me at this time XD

But hey i dont regret, i know how to manage a broken apt DB now XD. I guess.. x)

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in reply to Pantherina

The worst UI?

Clearly you've never used zypper dup

in reply to pastermil

Hahaha zypper is hell. This must have looked cool when internet speed was slow. But its just horrible.
in reply to Pantherina

One of the things that keeps me from staying with OpenSUSE.

That, and its overzealous security policy.

in reply to pastermil

Mind to elaborate? That sounds like a good thing.
in reply to Pantherina

It would be a good thing if you want to have stuff inaccessible by your users. Reasonable assumptions when you're the IT department with the company workstations. Not so reasonable when you just want to have a working PC for yourself (and probably your family).

The other day, I gave up on my Tumbleweed system when an update for some reason rendered my living room PC unable to connect to internet.

Maybe it was done in a good reason. Maybe it's supposed to give me some protection of some sort. Would I need that protection? Definitely not if it keeps me (and other family members) to watch youtube.

If anyone wants to attack me thru that thing, I'd say go for it. I got nothing but my Netflix & Spotify creds. They can try infecting my media library, which I can just wipe since I got multiple copies of it.

Right now, I got Debian running on all my systems. I get to configure each of them to be as secure as it needs to be without having my operations hindered.

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in reply to Pantherina

apt is easy to use and read. I haven't dreamed of searching for a shiny replacement because there's no problem to solve.
in reply to Sunny' 🌻

portage is pretty when i dont mess up my USE flags
in reply to minamoog

It'd be hard to argue for anything against #portage! The only time it's not pleasing to look at is when it's littered with [ B ] markers. 😆

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in reply to t0mri

I use apt-get, I don't care about how "pleasing" the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way.. But pacman.. I don't know why, but it's so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?
in reply to Goun

exactly. They use c and C (uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicator

btw dont think im crazy but ive set max parallel downloads to 200 and when i do a system update, damn that looks so good.

in reply to Sunny' 🌻

Package managers are for chumps. Build everything from source and track where you installed it in a single master text file.
in reply to Lissa

single master text file


Sounds like something you are using to manage your packages to me...

in reply to TechieDamien

Nah, the trick is to, at random, leave a package out of the text file so the system isn't truly managed and all is chaos!
in reply to tetris11

The key is to do it manually. Reject modernity. Embrace reinvention of not just the wheel.
in reply to Sunny' 🌻

If pipx could be called a package manager it would be my most visually pleasing choice. See the video here : https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/
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in reply to lemmyreader

I detest the node ecosystem, but I do love watching NPM build packages
in reply to Sunny' 🌻

I really like emerge/portage, even w/out the "candy" feature enabled. Great color highlighting, and verbose messages about any config change(s) needed.
in reply to Ryan

Portage remains to this day my favorite cli. It's nice to look at and provides all the info I want.

It's the one thing I miss from gentoo...

in reply to poinck

"waves vaguely"

Portage was great but losing a day whenever there was a glibc upgrade or something that caused a more "exciting" upgrade than usual wasn't worth it. I wanted more stability after a while.

in reply to atzanteol

Stability is for normies, embrace the compile times.
in reply to atzanteol

I can't remember ever having a glibc related update problem. eselect news is always there for me. (:

I only have rarely a perl update related problem, but usually solvable with a world update. And since there are now binpkgs I only compile what has differing useflags from the selected profile. Portage has never been better!

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in reply to Sunny' 🌻

Dnf is nice, rpm-ostree not so much.

Nala is the best by far.

Cargo is also nice.

in reply to Pantherina

Yeah seriously, I was surprised at how plain and illegible rpm-ostree felt in comparison to dnf, I really wish they put a little color or some extra separation just to make it feel less cramped and give people more glanceable info.
in reply to kellenoffdagrid❓️

I mean someone can create a PR, would likely be highly appreciated.
in reply to Sunny' 🌻

Nix with nix-output-monitor (nom).
https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor

Image/photo

It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying.

I haven't seen this in other package managers.

This entry was edited (2 months ago)