12 engineers on Hacker News describe using APT first-hand: 6 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“This sucks in pretty much every package manager I've worked with. Don't get me started on apt... unpack an ar archive into a global namespace”
regret · production · r3trohack3r · 2023-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using APT for this with great success for the past 17 years! I guess it's also saved me quite a few hundreds of hours.”
endorse · personal · 17 yr · tasuki · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we just build it all into a gigantic bundled debian package, and deploy that to the host system with apt.”
endorse · production · mikepurvis · 2020-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the APT network package management experience was vastly better than scouring various RPM sites or building from source”
endorse · personal · neilv · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Debian and apt-get are the final Linux distribution / package manager I will ever use.”
endorse · personal · overcast · 2017-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On Linux you use the Haxe install script, then sudo apt-get or sudo zypper install everything.”
endorse · production · Mikeb85 · 2014-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Apt is great for setting a box up initially, but after that the luster wears off in my experience.”
mixed · production · orthecreedence · 2012-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the ease of use of apt-get is certainly unmatched on any other platform”
endorse · personal · zohebv · 2010-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“only update your apt packages from a known, internal mirror endpoint”
neutral · production · setuid · 2024-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use the packaging tools of the operating system (like apt-get and equivalent tools on other systems)”
neutral · production · aninteger · 2016-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally I always try to run ftom apt in production.”
neutral · production · jeltz · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use a variant of your approach, apt proxy for the OS and since we run VmWare Infrastructure”
neutral · production · CyberFonic · 2011-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?