minus-squarefrozencow@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?linkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-28 months agoNix with nix-output-monitor (nom). https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying. I haven’t seen this in other package managers. linkfedilink
Nix with nix-output-monitor (nom). https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor
It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying.
I haven’t seen this in other package managers.