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That's my gripe with Atomic distros. I feel like they don't take the time to think things through and throw together. Instead, they throw together a new thing to address the shortcomings of the previous five things.
Love them or hate them, it feels like the only player sticking to their guns is Canonical with snap. It's the only package manager that really does it all: GUI, CLI, IDEs, server, daemons, even the kernel and GRUB. Honestly, when the permission prompting is stable, I might be tempted to give it another chance.
I wonder if they'll one day just alias a bunch of stuff, kinda like what Ubuntu has done with forcing Snap down people's throats. So, like:
sudo dnf install bottlesactually doingflatpak install bottlessudo dnf install tldractually doingbrew install tldrI don't think it's necessarily bad as long as it's very transparent on what it actually does (and why). And..., offers choice where applicable*.
Or..., like, introduce a new package manager that basically functions as a front-end. Would that ((and/)or the earlier alias-thing) be worse than sticking to the development of a single package manager until it does all (à la Snap)?
This is a weird statement it's designed this way on purpose. You seem to be looking for "one package manager to rule them all" in a world that's purposely splitting things up.