Package Manager of the Year
 

A new category last year, with a few changes this year.

--jeremy

Being on openSUSE, of course my choice was RPM, though there is nothing bad I could say about dpkg either. Just RPM is what I prefer.

Love pacman overall. I use apt most due to my love of Debian, but pacman is IMO the best package manager.

voted dpkg.

Voted dpkg. Have used mostly Debian family stuff forever.

I think aptitude/apt-get should have its own listing. That's just me.

Don't forget that apt now is it's own program seperate from the legacy apt-* suite.

Voted dpkg as apt wasn't listed separately. :)

apt-get with some Synaptic depending on what I'm doing.

Synaptic
 

I vote for Synaptic. Why is there no listing for Synaptic?

Synaptic isn't a package manager, it's a GUI front end.

--jeremy

Then I vote none of the above because I only use Synaptic.

Synaptic uses the dpkg format on the backend.

--jeremy

I may now be mostly using RPM, but pacman remains the best: efficient, straight-foward, flexible . . . who could ask for anything more.

pacman for me too