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    Solid advice (lemmy.world)
    submitted 11 months ago by Geert to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] mrchampion 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Pacman + yay is superior. pacman for most packages, and yay to use the AUR, where you can get pretty much anything that can be downloaded online, but as a package so that you can more easily manage what shit you've downloaded before but no longer need.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    Until the package adding and removing entropy lits your whole system on fire and you have to untangle dependencies, purge keyring, flush your system and reinstall

    [–] mrchampion 1 points 11 months ago

    Luckily that hasn't happened to me yet, though I'd say pacman is still far better than something like apt, even if you have to untangle dependencies.