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Rolling with Arch LinuxRolling with Arch LinuxPosted Mar 12, 2010 13:19 UTC (Fri) by phillemann (guest, #49231)Parent article: Rolling with Arch Linux
"Arch seems very fast. While there is no exact measure, the overall subjective experience during this test was highly positive. A completely functional system with all necessary system tools and services installed and running, was fast and stable 100% of the time."
I personally would have rather heard how the distribution's _package manager_ performs. How long does it take to resolve the dependencies for a package having lots of them? Is there a quick way to search for a package (maybe not by exact name match but also something fuzzier)? Does it take long to update the package database?
I'm a gentoo user so I suppose my applications run as fast as they possibly can, but is this an issue with non-source-based distributions? How fast the applications run?
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Rolling with Arch Linux Posted Mar 14, 2010 3:43 UTC (Sun) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
> is this an issue with non-source-based distributions? How fast the applications run?
No.
Rolling with Arch Linux Posted Mar 14, 2010 6:18 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
it depends on what you mean by 'an issue'
there are very definitely config options that can be selected that will change the speed of the applications
but most people don't care about this sort of thing.
Rolling with Arch Linux Posted Mar 14, 2010 9:24 UTC (Sun) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]
The package manager (pacman) runs about 5 times faster than the Ubuntu apt-
get (my experience, no precise timing). Substrings can be searched for using pacman -Ss (repository) or pacman -Qs (local installs). Updating the package database takes about 5-10 seconds for my laptop on a good network (for the repositories core, extra and community). All in all reasonably fast.
Rolling with Arch Linux Posted Mar 14, 2010 11:16 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
how much of the difference that you are talking about is related to the number of packages in the repository?
also, are you familiar with apt-cache (specifically apt-cache search)? it may have some of the functionality that you seem to think is missing
Rolling with Arch Linux Posted Mar 14, 2010 14:53 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
apt doesn't miss functionality compared to pacman, I'm pretty sure of that.
Pacman IS pretty fast, indeed, but to be honest I don't care that much.
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