Package Manager Tier List

I was thinking about Arch's pacman this morning, mentally noting once again how insanely fast it is compared to all of the other package managers I've used. So, I thought I'd put out an informal package manager tier list, based primarily on speed, and just going on my own general impressions, no actual metrics (who do you think I am, Roy Longbottom!? 😆). Oh, I guess could use TierMaker to make this post meme-worthy, but WHY? It'll just be plain text (html + markdown), as usual. PLAIN TEXT IS KING! The Tiers Package Manager tiers S pacman (Arch and derivatives) A Debian apt B FreeBSD pkg NetBSD pkgin NixOS nix Solus eopkg C Fedora dnf Fedora/RedHat yum flatpak Homebrew OpenSuSE zypper Python pipx D Arch yay and other AUR helpers Python pip F cargo OpenBSD pkg_add snap RedHat rpm Explanation/Details S Tier Pacman Dude, pacman is the G.O.A.T. What else can I say? I literally don't know how they managed to make their package manager that fast. There are many good reasons to not pick an…