4 engineers on Hacker News describe using pacman first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Compared to apt, pacman is awesome, but its willingness to let you do stupid things could use some adjustment.”
mixed · personal · 6 yr · mananaysiempre · 2021-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pacman installed every file in my /usr and my /bin, if I ever needed to know where a file came from, pacman was able to tell me”
endorse · personal · hollerith · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had the previous version in my pacman cache and was able to install it.”
neutral · personal · bierjunge · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even now after the pacman database format upgrade when pacman fails it specifically tells you to run a command to fix this.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · osense · 2014-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?