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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (15 children)

What's a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?

[–] atomicStan@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

uses apt

May I ask why you seem to be married to the use of apt?

~~Just couldn't pass up on the opportunity to insert this banger.~~

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't apt still better at resolving the dependency tree than other managers? (Idk if it is, but vaguely heard so.)

[–] atomicStan@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago

IIRC, historically, it was (one of) the first to do so. It took a significant time for (most^[Slackware, famously, continues to not have a dependency resolver. Though, they got their reasons.]) others to catch up.

still

Maybe. I honestly don't know either.

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