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What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently using EndeavourOS, but am annoyed by the constant daily updates of 1GB and pacman not installing important dependencies automatically (ex: spell checker for document editor). I like the way Fedora works: you update whenever, important dependencies are downloaded automatically, and packages are recent-ish, but I don't like that it takes forever to run dnf. I don't want to use Manjaro (apparently it breaks quickly?), and the distro needs to support KDE. I know about Flatpak, but I don't want to download 1GB of data for each app. Are there any good options?

(Yes, I can probably deal with Fedora, but dnf is slower than apt, and I don't want to deal with external repositories for non-free software.)

EDIT: I do not want to tweak or edit configuration files, I just need something that has up to date packages and "just works".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't

sudo pacman -S package_name

Install packages along with their dependencies?

sudo pacman -Syu

Will synchronize the database and update all packages, including their dependencies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't install any optional dependencies, is the problem the user seems to have.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's because Arch is all about user control, and they want you to pick which optional ones you want. I agree though that it would be useful to have a flag that just installed everything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a bad idea, even going back to his question, he wants spell checker, should it install every single language? It's likely a bad idea to do that, you'll get a lot of things you don't need. Not to mention optional dependencies might contradict each-other if several of them perform the same service, e.g. video playback backend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I think what they really want is an installer. Pop!_OS is a pretty great option. I've never had issues with their Pop! Shop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

sudo pacman -S --needed <package-name>

instead.