This might be personal preference but APT still has a long way to go, even though it is a big improvement over apt-get situation. About APT purge, dnf and eopkg does that out of the box when you remove some package. dnf remove is equivalent to "apt remove && apt purge". Also, I have frequently noticed purge to break dependencies of other packages, it is actually a big issue.
I actually did a reunion with my former students few years ago, it was at that time when I noticed that the students in batch which used fedora used linux longer than the students in batch which used ubuntu. Especially for their home use, despite the fact that online resource is better for debian based systems and fedora at that time had a pretty bad codec support. Some of the students who had to use Ubuntu at work actually hated the fact there was different command for doing different part of package management.
As a home user, DNF and Eopkg, has a cleaner command line experience, and these are the only two package system that has proper delta support and better debug symbols. APT and Pacman doesn't have official delta package support and community solutions are outdated. And APT dependency resolution is not good at present. DNF does a much better job than any other package system in my experience.
In India where we still factor in data usage and data speed, just looking at a message which says download will be a third of update size, makes it a better choice. Just today, I did an upgrade in Manjaro and Solus, Solus was about 40mb of download, Manjaro was about 700mb of download, for almost same stuff. Biggest difference was size of libreoffice, firefox and thunderbird update where solus had delta packages for them but manjaro didn't.
This might be personal preference but APT still has a long way to go, even though it is a big improvement over apt-get situation. About APT purge, dnf and eopkg does that out of the box when you remove some package. dnf remove is equivalent to "apt remove && apt purge". Also, I have frequently noticed purge to break dependencies of other packages, it is actually a big issue.
I actually did a reunion with my former students few years ago, it was at that time when I noticed that the students in batch which used fedora used linux longer than the students in batch which used ubuntu. Especially for their home use, despite the fact that online resource is better for debian based systems and fedora at that time had a pretty bad codec support. Some of the students who had to use Ubuntu at work actually hated the fact there was different command for doing different part of package management.
As a home user, DNF and Eopkg, has a cleaner command line experience, and these are the only two package system that has proper delta support and better debug symbols. APT and Pacman doesn't have official delta package support and community solutions are outdated. And APT dependency resolution is not good at present. DNF does a much better job than any other package system in my experience.
In India where we still factor in data usage and data speed, just looking at a message which says download will be a third of update size, makes it a better choice. Just today, I did an upgrade in Manjaro and Solus, Solus was about 40mb of download, Manjaro was about 700mb of download, for almost same stuff. Biggest difference was size of libreoffice, firefox and thunderbird update where solus had delta packages for them but manjaro didn't.
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