I use apt-get, I don’t care about how “pleasing” the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way… But pacman… I don’t know why, but it’s so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?
I don’t care how visually pleasing it is either, but I often find apt(-get) difficult to read.
For example, a simple thing that zypper does, is that when listing the packages to be installed, it colors the first letter of each package, which makes it a lot easier to scan through the packages.
I use apt-get, I don’t care about how “pleasing” the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way… But pacman… I don’t know why, but it’s so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?
exactly. They use
candC(uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicatorbtw dont think im crazy but ive set max parallel downloads to 200 and when i do a system update, damn that looks so good.
You can have actual Pacman emoji for the progress :)
How?
Sorry for the late reply, look for ILoveCandy option in the config.
I don’t care how visually pleasing it is either, but I often find apt(-get) difficult to read.
For example, a simple thing that zypper does, is that when listing the packages to be installed, it colors the first letter of each package, which makes it a lot easier to scan through the packages.