Post #3678589

Yes, the packaging mess that Atomic distros cause. I want a couple of functional things: To be able to safely upgrade my system silently, without interruptions, and rollback of necessary To know my system is not drifting away from upstream defaults and to restore it to a “factory” state To sandbox applications I’d like to be able to do all that efficiently and cleanly too. Atomic systems generally fulfill those first two while traditional distros struggle, which is why I stick to Atomic distros. But whereas you can use a single package manager on Arch and get everything (albeit without easy sandboxing), Atomics keep adding more and more. Here’s your rpm-ostree, flatpak, toolbox, homebrew, sysexts, etc. I find sysexts particularly insulting because they regress so much on traditional packages for so little upside. Doesn’t even have dependency management.