• frozencow@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 months ago

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

    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.

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
    2·
    21 days ago

    I still love aptitude TUI even though I don’t use Debian anymore.

    Next is dnf because it’s clear with obvious subcommands.

  • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    I really like the simplicity and formatting of stock pacman. It’s not super colorful but it’s fast and gives you all of the info you need. yay (or paru if you’re a hipster) is the icing on top.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    1·
    8 months ago

    pikaur? I love all the colors, especially the bit where it highlights the differences in major/minor version numbers, so it immediately catches your eye (so you can track major package upgrades). I also like that it should which packages are being pulled in as new dependencies.

  • Ryan@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

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

  • Lissa@beehaw.org
    0·
    8 months ago

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

      • Lissa@beehaw.org
        1·
        8 months ago

        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!

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
      0·
      8 months ago

      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?

      • t0mri@lemmy.ml
        11·
        8 months ago

        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.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      1·
      8 months ago

      Omg apt is like the worst UI there is.

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

      • TGhost [She/Her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        8 months ago

        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

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          8 months ago

          Nala is an apt wrapper, it just displays stuff better, automates updates and automatically chooses the fastest mirror (thats the stuff I know)