my absolute favorite thing is when you boot a debian/ubuntu system and you need to immediately install something with apt or a wrapper and it's like "NOPE, CAN'T! AUTOUDPATE RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND"
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Replying to @Foone
People turn on auto updates? Actually, people use Ubuntu?
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Little-mentioned nice thing about Gentoo: emerge uses fine-grained locking, you can run multiple instances at once and they won't step on each other.
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gentoo has a bad rap but portage is easily the best package manager, both in terms of functionality and maintenance, and it’s held that title for over a decade
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Replying to @anthonypants @Foone
Its main problems IMO are the horrendously slow dependency solver (especially for complex installs), though it is easily the most *powerful* one out there, and the slow-ish install times even for binary pkgs. Pretty sure those can be sped up, I keep meaning to investigate.
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(something something build the dep tree into a form that can be fed into an optimized SAT solver, or something like that)
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