Nixpkgs is (and has been for many years) the largest and most up to date package set by a very large margin. source: https://repology.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

* Repology, to be notified when packages I maintain are out-of-date: https://repology.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

For comparing package versions across distros, I like https://repology.org/. Fedora's official online package search is https://packages.fedoraproject.org/. Source: 7 months ago

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/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

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. Source: about 1 year ago

However, that "pacman -S" command has lots of switches (see section 1.1.1 ==> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman ). Source: 6 months ago

Install Vely - you can use standard packaging tools such as apt, dnf, pacman or zypper. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

Automatic installation of packages during building utilizes pacman and aurman with the supported "package sources" being:. Source: 11 months ago

* Package management and DNF syntax usage are big topics. Follow the Arch Wiki example for the "pacman" package management tool ==> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman. Source: 11 months ago

Should be possible as the Arch distro SteamOS is built on includes pacman. Source: 12 months ago