Sips'@slrpnk.net to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-29 months agoWhat is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down112
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?Sips'@slrpnk.net to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-29 months agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squarefrozencow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-29 months agoNix 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.
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.
Very neat, thanks for sharing!