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What is your favorite package manager? (feddit.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/unix@sh.itjust.works
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My favorite is pacman because it is fast af but it has really weird syntax's

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago

Debian user here, I just use apt. Really easy to use. I don't really think about being fond of a certain package manager, if it works, it works.

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    [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I use yay, it's pacman with AUR support. :)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    FYI: yay is no longer maintained (Untrue! See response here). Use paru instead Consider paru as an alternative option; it's written in Rust and has better version tracking for *-git packages (won't miss upgrades if the AUR version isn't tracked, won't do pointless upgrades if the AUR version changes but HEAD remains unchanged)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The latest release of yay was 3 weeks ago. Where are you seeing that it's not maintained anymore?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Huh! I appear to have fallen victim to misinformation. I stand corrected and I apologize for not properly confirm such a strong claim before repeating it like that.

    I suppose a more accurate way to put it is that yay has been slower to adopt new features (e.g.: yay#336 vs paru#260), but otherwise remains a current and well-maintained piece of software.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I was about to throw my computer out the window when you said that because I literally just implemented a bunch of ansible playbooks using yay to configure my machines and after yogurt et. al. being abandoned, I couldn't take another change. Not yet. I'll check out paru at some point though.

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