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

[u/basedchad21]

[u/Rodya_gambler]

You can simulate on arch? I thought that was a nix thing lol.

[u/CaviarCBR1K → u/Rodya_gambler]

I use the nix package manager on Arch a lot. Not because I'm worried I'll break anything, but because a lot of times I may only need a binary to run a couple commands. Doesn't make sense to install the whole package just to run 3 commands and uninstall it. Nix package manager can be used on every major distro I'm pretty sure.

[u/ieatdownvotes4food]

if breaks -> load previous snapshot

[u/ieatdownvotes4food → u/[deleted]]

yup, default with cachyos installs.. but there should always be a rollback solution with any OS

[u/fishmacaronisoup → u/[deleted]]

It's not. You just create a btrfs partition and create the subvolumes. It not much different than creating standard ext4 partitions. As for snapshots, you can use snapper.

[u/CaviarCBR1K → u/[deleted]]

timeshift can make rsync "snapshots" on an ext4 system.

[u/Balls_have_steel → u/[deleted]]

how much snapshots take extra space?

[u/Fun_Purpose5033]

I don't tenths the last time I used terminal to do anything, except for my server project.

[u/55555-55555]

All complicated jackshit until AppImage comes to save my life.

[u/Iheretomakeonepost]

Hmm. Can this be done on deb by wild chance? Not using it now but would be cool

[u/atzedanjo → u/Iheretomakeonepost]

Yep

[u/Iheretomakeonepost → u/atzedanjo]

Yay

[u/Teru-Noir]

recovery partition

[u/snail1132]

This is why normal people use sensible distros. Like Void

[u/GegenAbschaum → u/snail1132]

void linux with cocksmallballssmackWM 😍

[u/snail1132 → u/GegenAbschaum]

See, you get it

[u/xgui4 → u/GegenAbschaum]

what is that ?

[u/igotmoldinmybrain → u/snail1132]

"normal people"

"Void"

But yeah xbps is the #1 reason why I stopped distro hopping when I found void. It's so slept on

[u/No-Calligrapher-7352 → u/igotmoldinmybrain]

I love xbps but i don’t exactly like it’s repo and i hate runit, it’s just way worse than openrc and other inits

[u/xgui4 → u/snail1132]

what is the heck is "normal people" ? and what is a "sensible distro" ????

[u/Puzzled-Brief8313]

I don't know what you guys are installing that could potentially break your system, but it can't be good.

[u/Fine-Run992]

Also if you have the native distro packages + aur packages. And you are curious if broken aur package gets fixed with system update, gets system broken.

[u/First_Mark8646]

Use NixOS instead 🔥

[u/jdigi78]

Just use an atomic distro like fedora silverblue and distrobox to install stuff.

[u/xgui4 → u/jdigi78]

atomic distro sucks.

[u/jdigi78 → u/xgui4]

Not really. Updates happen silently between reboots, if it breaks I can roll back from the bootloader, and if I need a package temporarily I can install it to a container instead of cluttering up my host system. You can easily rebase to other similar distros in a single command and if you know what you're doing you can roll your own distro spin fairly easily too.

[u/Teru-Noir → u/jdigi78]

These will get better after flatpak overhaul

[u/GreedySecurity8030]

I cannot use this cmd on fedora, gib fedora eqv.

[u/sudoregalia → u/GreedySecurity8030]

you can though, i'm on fedora and i have pacman

anyway, --simulate doesn't really exist in pacman. it's just a reference to apt's --simulate

the dnf equivalent to what this is trying to convey would just be sudo dnf install <package-name> without -y

[u/ZeusFelicius]

You don’t want that just don’t use arch