What is your favorite package manager?
What is your favorite package manager?
My favorite is pacman because it is fast af but it has really weird syntax's
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I use yay, it's pacman with AUR support. :)
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came here to post this.
Also it always feels like I'm cheering for my system. :D
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FYI:
yayis no longer maintainedUseConsiderparuinsteadparuas an alternative option; it's written in Rust and has better version tracking for*-gitpackages (won't miss upgrades if the AUR version isn't tracked, won't do pointless upgrades if the AUR version changes but HEAD remains unchanged)
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You will all hate me but... Snaps! First time I could easily roll back a bad version of thunderbird (I use it for work -office 365) which got stuck in a oauth2 login loop. I had to roll back twice (again, single command, everything just worked) then finally an upgrade where the bug was fixed.
Don't get me wrong I've pinned versions before with apt etc, but I always end up forgetting and having to remove them afterwards.
And... The only reason I was using the thunderbird snap was cause the regular apt thunderbird had some other annoying bug.
Yep.... Snaps... (Shake my head and walk away)
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Nix on NixOS - pin any version of a package you want, multiple versions of the same package, works on all Linux distros and MacOS, and with Home-Manager it can even manage your dotfiles.