Rolling with Arch Linux [LWN.net]

Rolling with Arch Linux

Posted 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 (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

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 (guest, #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.