xbps
I still love aptitude TUI even though I don’t use Debian anymore.
Next is dnf because it’s clear with obvious subcommands.
I like xbps and flatpak
Nala
Package managers don’t have visuals. What do apt and rpm look like?
Apologies, I meant via the terminal - have edited the title.
pacman with ILoveCandy
ArchLinux’s pacman with ILoveCandy option enabled.
Ouu, you have me intrigued! Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what that would look like? Never tried pacman, nor heard of ILoveCandy.
The “C” in the progress bar is alternating between “c” and “C” to give the impression of munching.
How cute and fun! I love it. Thank you for the screenshot and explanation!
TIL EndeavourOS enabled that by default. I always thought it was standard…
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.
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.
Very neat, thanks for sharing!
Aptitude
Nala (an apt frontend) is the best I’ve seen so far
I second nala, it’s pretty enough, text mode of course.
Either flatpak or NixOs for me.
Flatpak is just light and doesn’t flood the user with 720710 lines just to say “installing Firefox”
NixOs just straight up has nothing to show.
Fair enough, visually pleasing is subjective, after all. Simplicity can be the best sometimes :=)
I really like emerge/portage, even w/out the “candy” feature enabled. Great color highlighting, and verbose messages about any config change(s) needed.
Portage remains to this day my favorite cli. It’s nice to look at and provides all the info I want.
It’s the one thing I miss from gentoo…
Why miss it? It is still there.
“waves vaguely”
Portage was great but losing a day whenever there was a glibc upgrade or something that caused a more “exciting” upgrade than usual wasn’t worth it. I wanted more stability after a while.
I can’t remember ever having a glibc related update problem.
eselect newsis always there for me. (:I only have rarely a perl update related problem, but usually solvable with a world update. And since there are now binpkgs I only compile what has differing useflags from the selected profile. Portage has never been better!
Stability is for normies, embrace the compile times.
Ohh it’s been a long time since I last used gentoo! I remember I used to love the green/blue (I hope my memory isn’t failing me) combination everywhere </3.
I stopped using it because building the updates on multiple machines was becoming a pain and had a couple of drives fail, but those were good times!
i think you can filter this too. using stderr
portage is pretty when i dont mess up my USE flags
Package managers are for chumps. Build everything from source and track where you installed it in a single master text file.
You joke, but you should look up Guix
The key is to do it manually. Reject modernity. Embrace reinvention of not just the wheel.
single master text file
Sounds like something you are using to manage your packages to me…
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!
