Talk:List of software package management systems

Ubuntu
Being ubuntu one of the most popular linux distributions, and because not many people know that it's based on Debian, I think it should be added that Ubuntu uses dpkg as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.230.143.237 (talk) 04:01, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Additional package managers
FreeBSD's "pkg_install" suite and OpenBSD's rewrite of it as "pkg_add" ought to be mentioned. Also, ActiveState's PPM might be noteworthy for the application-level section. 24.54.148.214 (talk) 01:27, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Why Windows Installer
Is Windows Installer really a package manager? I'm pretty sure it just installs applications, not packages. One of many places I've seen it said that Windows simply does not have any standard package management system: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7784665/windows-package-manager-for-c-libraries — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.192.5.27 (talk) 22:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

python packaging mistakes
Including both easy_install and PyPI as package managers incorrectly explains the package management in python. PyPI is the package repository and the depreciated package manager is easy_install and the current package manager is pip Lucractius (talk) 05:41, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Go get
I think go get is not a package management. It can't handle dependency and it has no update function. -- OlafRadicke (talk) 07:08, 13 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't think either of these points were relevant in 2015 for if it should be included in the article, but they're totally irrelevant now (especially with how the article is structured to separate OS package managers vs application package managers.) Further, in 2018, with the release of Go 1.11, go get added initial support for modules which handle dependencies/version. The Go 1.0, released in 2012, had support for updates with go get -u. Losinggeneration (talk) 00:01, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

cross ref
It would be more useful to have a cross reference of package names across package managers.

Then, for example, if someone sees an apt-get command and they have yum, they would come here and see the equivalent package, or the equivalent yum command. Or if they see yum and have Ubuntu, they could do the reverse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.160.49.90 (talk) 23:33, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Is it better to have the article be wrong or for it to not have a "correct" citation?
My edit was reverted due to bad citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_software_package_management_systems&oldid=prev&diff=749663660

What's the right choice? Should I just edit it again and exclude the citation? I've barely touched Wikipedia in years so am no longer familiar with the right protocols/formats/etc. :-/ --Brendan Hide (talk) 21:50, 21 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I always appreciate better references - thank you! I feel an even better place for that information is the article on Pacman (Arch Linux), so I copied your reference and put it there. --DavidCary (talk) 18:59, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Conan.io Missing?
Is https://conan.io Conan.io missing here? It is a c++ package manager. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.235.158.173 (talk) 11:47, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Windows:NPackD
https://npackd.appspot.com/ as one of the first is missing. It's open source (GPLv3) and has most of the wellknown packages. == 91.141.1.33 (talk) 12:09, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Add hunter?
Hunter: CMake driven cross-platform package manager for C/C++. Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Raspberry Pi, etc. https://github.com/ruslo/hunter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2407:7000:9726:4037:C74:5EB1:F664:44A4 (talk) 21:45, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

"Mobile" section went off topic
This article deals with software package management systems, yet the Mobile section mostly deals with software REPOSITORIES, not PMS. For example, Android only uses one package format, APK which is installed by the same underlying package mechanism. For example, DEB and RPM packages can also be installed manually or any other way on the Linux distros that support them, without the need for network repositories, as can APKs, without apt, yum or Play Store, respectively.

The Unix-like section is sharply contrasted to the Mobile section by primarily covering package formats and mechanisms, like dpkg and RPM, and the delivery systems are just briefly listed, never mind the repositories. In the same venue, the Mobile section should only list APK under Android followed by a brief list mentioning Play Store, F-Droid, SlideMe etc.

I understand the lines are somewhat blurred here because most of the package systems for mobile platforms aren't so tightly integrated as are those on desktop Unix-likes. But at the very least, those systems should be grouped around the underlying package formats and their core installer engines. The same goes for the Windows section below. --Arny (talk) 12:49, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

some legit package managers have been removed
The following have been removed:


 * Teaport
 * scoop
 * conan
 * cargo

They should be added back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.84.200.10 (talk) 02:25, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

what's the reason that scoop.sh ist removed? Maybe User:MrOllie can answer this --2A02:8388:1800:E000:687A:97D6:5727:9AD7 (talk) 13:09, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a list of systems that have a preexisting Wikipedia article, not an external link directory. - MrOllie (talk) 13:10, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

apt and aptitude
Is there a reason why apt and aptitude are missing from the Linux section? They are probably the most popular package managers on Linux. 174.91.177.41 (talk) 06:03, 17 April 2023 (UTC)