Nix with nix-output-monitor (nom). https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor
It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying.
I haven’t seen this in other package managers.
ArchLinux’s pacman with ILoveCandy option enabled.
Ouu, you have me intrigued! Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what that would look like? Never tried pacman, nor heard of ILoveCandy.
The “C” in the progress bar is alternating between “c” and “C” to give the impression of munching.
How cute and fun! I love it. Thank you for the screenshot and explanation!
TIL EndeavourOS enabled that by default. I always thought it was standard…
Dnf is nice, rpm-ostree not so much.
Nala is the best by far.
Cargo is also nice.
I still love aptitude TUI even though I don’t use Debian anymore.
Next is dnf because it’s clear with obvious subcommands.
Nala (an apt frontend) is the best I’ve seen so far
Aptitude
pacman with ILoveCandy
I really like the simplicity and formatting of stock pacman. It’s not super colorful but it’s fast and gives you all of the info you need. yay (or paru if you’re a hipster) is the icing on top.
pikaur? I love all the colors, especially the bit where it highlights the differences in major/minor version numbers, so it immediately catches your eye (so you can track major package upgrades). I also like that it should which packages are being pulled in as new dependencies.
portage is pretty when i dont mess up my USE flags
I really like emerge/portage, even w/out the “candy” feature enabled. Great color highlighting, and verbose messages about any config change(s) needed.
Nala
Package managers are for chumps. Build everything from source and track where you installed it in a single master text file.
single master text file
Sounds like something you are using to manage your packages to me…
Nah, the trick is to, at random, leave a package out of the text file so the system isn’t truly managed and all is chaos!
If pipx could be called a package manager it would be my most visually pleasing choice. See the video here : https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/
I detest the node ecosystem, but I do love watching NPM build packages
Pacman ofc
I use apt-get, I don’t care about how “pleasing” the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way… But pacman… I don’t know why, but it’s so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?
exactly. They use
candC(uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicatorbtw dont think im crazy but ive set max parallel downloads to 200 and when i do a system update, damn that looks so good.
You can have actual Pacman emoji for the progress :)
How?
Sorry for the late reply, look for ILoveCandy option in the config.
