• Snot FlickermanEnglish
    6•20 days ago

    My personal experience is that apt-get will absolutely miss packages that apt will capture.

    I was actually surprised by that about six months ago and finally switched over to apt after years of apt-get.

    • @[email protected]
      4•20 days ago

      That’s actually one of the reasons I switched from Debian to Arch.
      Dependency resolution shouldn’t differ based on which front-end you use.
      Debian has dpkg, aptitude, apt-get, apt, synaptic, the Software Center…
      Fedora has rpm, dnf, yum. SUSE adds a couple more. I don’t get it.
      A linux distro should have one package manager, doing different stuff with it should be done via different commands/options inside it.

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        2•20 days ago

        Out of curiosity, can pacman update flatpaks? Or do you still have to update those independent of your package manager?

        • @[email protected]
          3•20 days ago

          It can’t. I use a very simple script to combine updates and the basics of system maintenance:

          #!/usr/bin/env bash
systemctl --failed -q
yay -Pw
sudo pacman -Syu
flatpak update
flatpak uninstall --unused
pacman -Qqnte > ~/.local/share/applications/pkglist.txt
pacman -Qqdtt > ~/.local/share/applications/optdeplist.txt
pacman -Qqem > ~/.local/share/applications/foreignpkglist.txt
pacman -Qtd
pacman -Qm | grep -v yay-bin
sudo find /etc -name *.pac*
yay -Ps | grep Cache
      • Rhaedas
        3•20 days ago

        As a (still) Linux novice, this is something that I noticed with later distributions but never thought about your valid point. I did always wonder why there should be different places to install things in the same OS. It would probably be fine if they handled things the same, but then all you’re doing is changing the UI. It never “felt” like they did things the same.