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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] 4 points 1 year ago

My favourite is pacman. I actually like the syntax. It feels very UNIX-y.

I'm a fan of the refresh (-y) and upgrade (-u) options being separate flags that can be used separately or together. I also find pacman's output to be very clean and readable.

Whenever I use apt, I find it slightly annoying that I need to invoke update and upgrade (and dist-upgrade) separately. I also find apt spits out a lot of unnecessary output, resulting in an unreadable wall of text.

I haven't used yum/dnf much, but the few times I used it I was slightly annoyed that it seems to insist on refreshing the repositories every time it runs.