• alecsargent@lemmy.zip
        7·
        20 days ago

        Its an excerpt from pacman’s configuration file, first line makes the progress bar a pacman that eats dots while downloading packages, the second line is self explanatory and the third allows to download multiple packages at the same time so there are 15 pacmans at all times while downloading.

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  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    151·
    22 days ago

    Pacman is great until you forget to delete your lock file because you interrupted an update and wonder why it isn’t working.

    APT is user-friendly, but a pain to automate in scripts.

    the real winner is compiling from source. 😎

  • JATth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    22 days ago

    After using dnf a bit:

    • All the default answers are backwards to me, so dnf quite literally ignores my input.
    • dnf search did not show, by default, if a matching package is already installed.
    • Perfect perhaps for newbies, since dnf asks you trice.

    yeah… arch is not leaving me anytime soon. The option to makepkg from source a few custom packages is very neat.

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
    9·
    22 days ago

    Pacman will start the fight as soon as all packages are up to date, assuming no packages push updates in the time it takes to update (unlikely).

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
    6·
    22 days ago

    I used all of them. Out of the three apt is the one I dislike the most. Dnf is half baked, but works well enough anyway. Pacman is actually very nice, I just don’t use arch anymore.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        22 days ago

        Not OP. I like apt. But I switched over from redhat/fedora to Ubuntu like 15+ years ago, and I will say the rpm command offered much better options for querying package metadata. What mostly comes to mind is searching for files belonging to a package, or finding what package a file belongs to. dpkg/ apt-* can’t do that out of the box without some additional apt-* tools installed. Which is ok, but a bit extra clunky.

        • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
          2·
          22 days ago

          Isn’t dnf the equivalent of apt? I don’t think I’ve ever used rpm, but wouldn’t that be more like using gdebi for deb-packages?

          • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            Dnf sits on top of rpm (formerly yum did this, formerly up2date did this) the same way apt sits on top of dpkg.

            While ultimately they both provide similar general functionality (installing and updating packages) the specific command syntax and switches differ. And some commands imo are more useful than others.

      • ranzispa@mander.xyz
        3·
        22 days ago

        Not that I dislike it, but many quality of life things are missing. One simple example is that a sensible way to manage which packages are automatically installed and not manually has been introduced only recently. Searching for dependencies of packages is quite complex. If you know the name of the executable/library file I’m not sure whether it is possible to retrieve the package who provides it. Asides from that, it is the one package manager who gave me the most problems when something goes wrong. Not comparing to the problems that arise from arch all the time, but apt often has locking problems, incorrect resolution, impossibilities to upgrade certain packages and many many problems if you start introducing third party repositories. It is quite usable, don’t get me wrong; but I never felt all this hindrance while using dnf.

      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        The list of upgrades being one big paragraph instead of separate lines is bad enough. I have some Debian servers but never looked if there’s a flag to make it look better.

        Also no history or rollback. Madison is dumb as I recall. Just kind of unintuitive and bare bones for me. Dnf (especially dnf5) suit me fine but I’m an rpm homer.

  • CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    21 days ago

    I didn’t know what was dnf so I made a search and found out it replaced yum as the redhat package manager in 2013. I did not know about yum either. Last time I used a redhat-based distribution, Mandrake, the package managers were rpm and urpmi. Tempus fugit!