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What is your favorite package manager? (feddit.de)

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My favorite is pacman because it is fast af but it has really weird syntax's

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I like apt for its syntax, I like yay for it's speed and ease compared to pacman.

Pacman has absurd option syntax, I think to deliberately make it feel exclusive. If the first thing you need to do is create a bunch of aliases or a crib sheet for basic things then it's a terrible user experience.

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