My favorite is pacman because it is fast af but it has really weird syntax’s
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.
apkis scary fast. Makes spinning up a quick Alpine chroot with e.g. Go or Rust for building with Musl take like 10 seconds.I’d like to put in my 2 cents for pkgsrc
It’s not the sexiest, fastest or most full-featured but having a package manager that can bootstrap on anything even remotely smelling of Unix is awesome. And it sits cleanly next to whatever native package manager may exist.
pkgsrc drew me into NetBSD and becoming an official developer was a proud and happy moment.
Hey, thanks for suggesting pkgsrc! Do you have any experience using it on systems where you don’t have root access, i.e. you need to install software in your home directory? Is it a good fit for such scenarios?
I use yay, it’s pacman with AUR support. :)
came here to post this.
Also it always feels like I’m cheering for my system. :D
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)
