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Rolling with Arch LinuxRolling with Arch LinuxPosted Mar 14, 2010 9:24 UTC (Sun) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427)In reply to: Rolling with Arch Linux by phillemann Parent article: Rolling with Arch Linux
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.
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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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