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What's your favourite package manager? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Digit@lemmy.today to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly I like most of them. they're all pretty good. that being said wasn't a fan of xbps. found it slow. Nix is great too. it's just so damn easy. especially if you use comma. I also like DNF. pacman's pretty good too especially when you add "ILoveCandy" to the conf. Portage is great too.

But honestly out of all of them, and this isn't linux, but FreeBSD's is my favourite.

[–] Digit@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

xbps. found it slow.

Really!?

I find xbps very fast.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know maybe it was the mirror I was on, maybe it was a bad day for it, but installing packages took awhile.

[–] Digit@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Got me wondering... just a rudimentary poke at it, no deep investigation... time xbps-install -Syu and I see it takes about 2-3 seconds per mirror to update the list, and then with a big fat load to upgrade of 374mb to dl, 1238mb on disk, and as I watch the packages come in, most are giving avg speeds equiv to maxing out my connection, whole load done in 431.37s. Seemed super slick and fast to me. Would still be barely begun if on Gentoo or Suse.