Pacman aint slow. Seems to basically run at the speed required to download and copy files. Then again it has no concept of required versions, since Arch just requires you to stay up to date. So there's no extensive solving of dependencies over version requirements, just the packages themselves.
When I was on Ubuntu though, which does have version requirements taken into account in packages, I didn't find apt to be slow either.
You know what's slow? The conda package manager. Or installing software - practically any software - on Windows. I regularly budget half an hour to an hour just to install something on the Windows computers I'm forced to use.
When I was on Ubuntu though, which does have version requirements taken into account in packages, I didn't find apt to be slow either.
You know what's slow? The conda package manager. Or installing software - practically any software - on Windows. I regularly budget half an hour to an hour just to install something on the Windows computers I'm forced to use.