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In other words, your package manager should be perfect and bug free 5 years ago. There are zero package managers from any environment for which these requireme

• riffraff 6y ago
  but python has been around for a while, I feel the frustration comes from the fact that other platforms seem to have managed to get a single working tool much earlier.
  • jnwatson 6y ago
    The only platforms that have excellent package management systems are the ones you haven’t used yet. Npm is probably the closest. They had $10.6 million of investment to get it right.
• stingraycharles 6y ago
  I’m fairly certain that yum and apt meet these requirements for “traditional” package managers, I know Maven does as well. I think it depends a lot upon the culture of the ecosystem, maven being fairly conservative is a natural consequence of Java being very enterprise focused.
  • viraptor 6y ago
    That's easy to disprove. See the bugtrackers for those projects. They're not bug free. See why "aptitude" was introduced to cover "apt"s failures. Also one of the reasons we had the yum to dnf migration is to replace the worse resolver in yum with a sat-solver in dnf.