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Pacman is, subjectively, the fastest package manager I’ve ever used. Not sure if it’s C vs python though, apt is also much slower on many tasks.
by pletnes 7y ago
Pacman is, subjectively, the fastest package manager I’ve ever used. Not sure if it’s C vs python though, apt is also much slower on many tasks.
- 0xFFFE 7y agoAgreed, so is "apk" from Alpine Linux.
- massysett 7y agoThis could easily be simply because Pacman doesn’t do as much as apt. For instance apt tracks symbols exported by shared libraries. Pacman doesn't.
- viraptor 7y agoI've never heard of that. In what situations is that tracking used?
- Conan_Kudo 7y agoAs far as I know, only RPM-based package managers do symbol tracking at dependency resolution time. Neither Debian nor Arch package managers do this.
- meruru 7y agoI think Void's is faster. Less ergonomic though. Would be fun to see some benchmarks.