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A good package management system is a very important part of a Linux distro. What's much harder to achieve is a large and well maintained collection of up to d
by jcoffland 10y ago
A good package management system is a very important part of a Linux distro. What's much harder to achieve is a large and well maintained collection of up to date packages. You can have the best tools in the world but if they aren't backed up by well maintained packages then those tools are pretty use less.
This is why Debian has dominated Linux distros for decades. Debian's apt-get is a good package management system. Not perfect, not the best, but good. But, no one can compete with Debian for quality and quantity of well maintained packages.
Only time will tell if any of these next-gen package managers will succeed.
- matthewbauer 10y agoWhat makes things a little easier is they can be installed along with your standard package manager.
- flukus 10y agoI love apt, but the release policy isn't at all suitable for desktop use. You get stuck with the same bugs for at least 6 months, even if the developer has released a fix.
- notatoad 10y agothat's not a flaw of apt, it's just a policy of the distros that use apt. Even on ubuntu, some apt packages (notably chrome and firefox) release major updates independent of the distro's release cycle.
- slitaz 10y agoapt packages are so stable because it takes so much effort and time to make them. For example, a new apt package may be pending just because enough time has not passed since it was created.
- Lintaris 10y agoI think it is the hard work of the maintainers to ensure quality that makes .deb stand out.