ArchLinux's pacman with ILoveCandy option enabled.
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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!
Nala (an apt frontend) is the best I've seen so far
I second nala, it's pretty enough, text mode of course.
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 c and C (uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicator
btw 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 :)
u use it?
I don't care how visually pleasing it is either, but I often find apt(-get) difficult to read.
For example, a simple thing that zypper does, is that when listing the packages to be installed, it colors the first letter of each package, which makes it a lot easier to scan through the packages.
Dnf is nice, rpm-ostree not so much.
Nala is the best by far.
Cargo is also nice.
Yeah seriously, I was surprised at how plain and illegible rpm-ostree felt in comparison to dnf, I really wish they put a little color or some extra separation just to make it feel less cramped and give people more glanceable info.
I mean someone can create a PR, would likely be highly appreciated.
Debian made me to only love apt and dpkg.
Omg apt is like the worst UI there is.
Have a look at nala! It needs some depencies but is a huge upgrade
Ah ah i will one day.
I clearly agree, apt is ugly and even synaptic making it better. But like i said, while ago when I used synaptic I did break my packages and I got to use dpkg and apt, to repair.
Since, I guess, I'm on a PTSD about it and now just use apt or dpkg, when using a Debian or Debian based system.
But I will listen to you, and for sure will give it a try
Nala is an apt wrapper, it just displays stuff better, automates updates and automatically chooses the fastest mirror (thats the stuff I know)
Normally like synaptic no ?
I dont know why a (tui) wrapper should cause stuff apt doesnt. Its likely an apt problem.
No that was an synaptic issue, dont remember now the specific issue,
But it didnt managed well, certainly a bug at the bad moment for me at this time XD
But hey i dont regret, i know how to manage a broken apt DB now XD. I guess.. x)
apt is easy to use and read. I haven't dreamed of searching for a shiny replacement because there's no problem to solve.
Package managers are for chumps. Build everything from source and track where you installed it in a single master text file.
You joke, but you should look up Guix
The key is to do it manually. Reject modernity. Embrace reinvention of not just the wheel.
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!
Portage
Package managers don't have visuals. What do apt (dpkg) and rpm look like?
Apologies, I meant via the terminal - have edited the title.
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
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.
Yay
Aptitude
Yast2GUI- GTK Software Manager (zypper backend). Click the checkboxes to install, click to set update, delete or lock/hold status. Manually select a package version with radio buttons. Review files included. Read change notes Apply button.
I like xbps and flatpak
pacman with ILoveCandy
I still love aptitude TUI even though I don't use Debian anymore.
Next is dnf because it's clear with obvious subcommands.
I don't really know how "visually pleasing" you can get with a terminal package manager tbh. I just have colors and ILoveCandy enabled in pacman and that's more than enough for me, looks pretty to me.