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pacman is faster simply because it does less things and it supports less use cases. For example pacman does not need to validate the system for partial upgrade
by akdev1l 7mo ago
pacman is faster simply because it does less things and it supports less use cases.
For example pacman does not need to validate the system for partial upgrades because those are unsupported on Arch and if the system is borked then it’s yours to fix.
- pxc 7mo agoLess charitably, pacman is fast because it's wrong. The dependency resolver is wrong; it fails to find correct answers to dependency resolution problems even when correct answers are available.