I have been using linux for about 2 years now and I have enjoyed every second of it. What in your opinion is the best package manager the linux community has ever offered to us? dpkg, apt, yum, pacman, xbps, zypp, nix, guix, portage, 0install and other tons of them that are out there.

  • adrianmalacoda
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    4 years ago

    I use a script to parse the output of guix upgrade --dry-run to figure out what packages will need to be built, and prompt me for whether I want to build anything or just upgrade from substitutes (by feeding the list of packages without substitutes to guix package -u --do-not-upgrade package1|package2|etc). It could be easier, though.

    I think this would be definite pain point for users, especially of lower-end devices, e.g. a Pinephone.