One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.
Oh. Glad to know every part of that package is absolutely as delivered, and signatures are clean in a chain from the distro’s published keys down to the checksums on every file deployed.
Yes, this has saved my bacon. Yes, this has absolutely shut some distros out of consideration.
It is impossible to be better than the nix package manager.
# rpm -Vp https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/n/net-tools-2.0-0.64.20160912git.el9.x86_64.rpmOh. Glad to know every part of that package is absolutely as delivered, and signatures are clean in a chain from the distro’s published keys down to the checksums on every file deployed.
Yes, this has saved my bacon. Yes, this has absolutely shut some distros out of consideration.