Perhaps I should have stated that more clearly. I am aware that pamac is not being abandoned by the developer. I am referring to those who seem to be saying “well pamac has faults, so we should always use parmac, and simply not use pamac”
Well, that is the opinion and advice of many seasoned members of the community, and they are entitled to their opinion. It is not the official stance of the Manjaro Team themselves.
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OK. I guess basically I agree with them.
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pamac is the ideal candy - if the GUI can fix it’s inability to find cheese then I’ll trust it to find me all options for a given keyword…
So if you want Cheese installed, you can search for ‘chee’ instead (Official comes top, Flatpak second) but if you search Cheese it’s broken (so basically you’d be better off using your browser - the GUI fails miserably on this occasion and so I will never trust it to find software options until it gets fixed).
So there’s the question of fragmentation - we can use yay/paru to search also AUR and then we must use flatpak:
❯ flatpak install cheese
Looking for matches…
Remotes found with refs similar to ‘cheese’:
1) ‘flathub’ (system)
2) ‘flathub’ (user)
Which do you want to use (0 to abort)? [0-2]:
Finally the presentation with colour highlights (pamac cli excludes channels added to the GUI - so no flatpak or snap included there).