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The major problem here is the lack of dialogue between language-specific package managers and distro package managers. I think once that is fixed, a lot of stu
by Ericson2314 5y ago
The major problem here is the lack of dialogue between language-specific package managers and distro package managers.
I think once that is fixed, a lot of stuff will start improving.
I wrote https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109/ https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/109/ in hopes Nix can help lead the way here.
- AlphaSite 5y agoIf this were true Mac and Windows wouldn’t thrive, but they do just fine without a system level package manager at all.
- Ericson2314 5y agoErr i was trying to answer > What I'm against is the general fragmentation of Linux that makes interoperability between distro's and window managers problematic. I disagree that downloading software being hard is a major impediment. (though I realize the parent did continue to claim that.) How many people download executables on the regular anyways?
- nick__m 5y agoWindows now has a first-party package manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli It positively surprised me when I did `sudo winget upgrade` (I first did `winget install gerardog.gsudo` in an admin prompt) and it detected and upgraded the majority of the already installed OSS on my Windows workstation.