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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by kaba0 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:51AM (#36268841)
A quick Litmus test: can you install Gnome and KDE, uninstall them and not have any leftover package?

None of your listed package managers can do that, and that’s not even a difficult thing like installing 2 firefox versions with only this deep dependency changed.

Re:NixOS for the Impatient by dizhn on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:45PM (#36274303)
The thing with traditional package management though, these decisions are not that straightforward, especially for mega packages like KDE or LibreOffice.

When you install a window manager like say, sway, it will install a terminal, alacrity on some distros.

The distro specifically refrains from deleting alacrity when you're uninstalling sway and that's a reasonable thing to do even though people might disagree on it.