What Package System do you prefer.

[RobinVossen]

I was looking in the sticky of TechnieMoe.
And I saw that there wasnt a what package system do you prefer.
So, Well I post it here ^^

Woops. I forgot to put Other in there.
Well if other dont vote just post it here

[budman7]

Portage is my favorite.
But I also like pac-man.
Apt-get is good too.

p.s. added "Other" option.

[RobinVossen]

Thanks for adding Other

After thinking for a while.. Compiling from source isnt a package system -.-'
Sorry for that.

[Kieren]

Is YaST not a package system?

Edit: oooh, 99 posts! Better make my next post special!

[RobinVossen]

Oh, yea I forgot about YaST. Its since I never liked Suse I think.
Well since Source isnt a Package system. and YaST is.
Source should be changed into YaST is guess

[techieMoe]

It would have been nice to have an "All of the above/Don't Care" option, since I don't really pay attention to what package format a distro uses. If it works, it works. I've played with Apt distros, RPM distros, source distros and everything in between (PBI for instance). Most of them are to a point of maturity where it really doesn't matter. They're all fairly easy to manage.

[RobinVossen]

Well, I never really worked well with rpm (and yum)
and I just understand deb for a sort while.
Ive seen a couple of Discussions about rpm vs deb on this forum and others.
So I was intrested in some statistics

[oz]

I've been using Arch for almost three years now, so I guess I prefer Pacman.

[Thrillhouse]

Another vote for pacman: simple, powerful and fast. I like apt-get too but I feel like it overcomplicates some functions. There's too many apt-*'s. yum's good but should be re-written in C and rpm's a little bloated. I've never used portage so I can't speak to it.

But for the most part, like TechieMoe, I just want it to work.

[Cabhan]

I'm a fan of Portage, probably mostly because I use Gentoo, and I never did manage to get a usable Debian system (that's what I guess for trying Woody, I guess). But Apt would work just as well, I suspect. It just needs to be a powerful, easy-to-use-and-manage system.

I will say that I despise yum. It's slow, it's hard to use, it's hard to configure, and out-of-the-box, it's basically useless. At least, this is my experience with my friends who tried Fedora Core who asked me for help.