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A quick Litmus test: can you install Gnome and KDE, uninstall them and not have any leftover package? None of your listed package managers can do that, and tha
by kaba0 3y ago
A quick Litmus test: can you install Gnome and KDE, uninstall them and not have any leftover package?
None of your listed package managers can do that, and that’s not even a difficult thing like installing 2 firefox versions with only this deep dependency changed.
- dizhn 3y agoThe thing with traditional package management though, these decisions are not that straightforward, especially for mega packages like KDE or LibreOffice. When you install a window manager like say, sway, it will install a terminal, alacrity on some distros. The distro specifically refrains from deleting alacrity when you're uninstalling sway and that's a reasonable thing to do even though people might disagree on it.