• frozencow@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    1·
    3 months ago

    pikaur? I love all the colors, especially the bit where it highlights the differences in major/minor version numbers, so it immediately catches your eye (so you can track major package upgrades). I also like that it should which packages are being pulled in as new dependencies.

  • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
      0·
      3 months ago

      I use apt-get, I don’t care about how “pleasing” the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way… But pacman… I don’t know why, but it’s so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?

      • t0mri@lemmy.ml
        11·
        3 months ago

        exactly. They use c and C (uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicator

        btw dont think im crazy but ive set max parallel downloads to 200 and when i do a system update, damn that looks so good.