Repology-updater Alternatives

repology-updater reviews and mentions

• Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
  19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2025

  I'm using it on my server, laptop, and desktop. The community may be relatively small, but it is super active and easy to engage with. As a testament to how active the community is, Repology[0] ranks GNU Guix as the 5th largest repo by number of packages. Ahead of even some much more well known distros like Fedora and Gentoo.

  [0] https://repology.org/

• Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jul 2024

  Nixpkgs is the largest and most up to date package repository according to https://repology.org/

  I'm honestly curious what packages you have a problem with

• Repology, the Packaging Hub
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023
• What is the Fedora experience like?
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Nov 2023

  For comparing package versions across distros, I like https://repology.org/. Fedora's official online package search is https://packages.fedoraproject.org/.

• NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023

  fwiw nixpkgs has significantly more packages than arch (including the aur), and those packages are also significantly more up to date. No other repo comes close to nixpkgs in this regard. This has been the case for quite some years now.

  https://repology.org/

• Package repo question, availability of packages
  1 project | /r/MXLinux | 24 May 2023

  I think available package number is a bit of an exaggeration. looking at the statistics, the most packages are on nixOS. but there are other topics such as number of maintainers, update and stability. so middle ground is debian testing and arch. i suggest repology.org to look stats

• Couple of noob questions
  6 projects | /r/Nix | 20 May 2023

  I believe it likely was a comparision in number of packages, currently nixpkgs outnumber AUR (although it also contains packages that are part of other languages): https://repology.org/

• Linux Software Map
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2023

  I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/

  Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.

• ubuntu-debullshit! Script to get vanilla gnome, remove snaps, flathub and more on Ubuntu
  5 projects | /r/linux | 12 May 2023

  I know that "number of packages" isn't a perfect metric, but going by that Nixpkgs is the largest (see https://repology.org/).

• Is it possible to install older versions of XFCE (such as 4.14)
  2 projects | /r/xfce | 9 May 2023

  to find a distro still supporting that version you can use https://repology.org/ or https://pkgs.org

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