Hacker News Reader

The main use cases I can think of for a super fast and lean package manager are (1) speeding up docker image builds (only matters when new dependencies are added), (2) folks with slow / significantly metered internet connections, and (3) embedded systems / low resource machines.

Otherwise 20-60 seconds saved doesn't matter to me personally for a one-time event. I'm guessing it doesn't matter to the package-manager developers either.

View on HN

Always strive for excellence. For something as fundamental as this, it's a bit shameful that mainstream package managers are so unnecessarily slow.

Let's say there are 30 million Linux users who are wasting an hour every year on slow package managers. 30 million hours means 3424 years wasted every year or the total average lifespan of 48 people. Package managers kill 48 people per year. ( /s )

(There's some related Steve Jobs quote here somewhere.)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com