• EntropyPure@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nala is a great apt frontend. It supports parallel downloads of packages and speeds up the whole process up a lot.

    Not sure which commands irk you as too long. Nala makes a good overview of changes like which package is bumped to what version and where it stands now. So I basically only use

    nala upgrade
    

    and take it from there. Updates the sources, lists the diff for upgradable packages and ask me to go forward or abort.

    • CronyAkatsuki@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz
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      7 months ago

      Just the pure act of installing a package is longer than with pacman for example.

      And the way that apt has seperated regular package and -dev packages irks me a lot when I need a library for something I need to make sure to install a =dev package compared to most other package manager where libraries are installed with the lackage itself.