Mamba vs tdnf
Mamba
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| Figure | Mamba | tdnf |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Package Managers | 8.8 (#9) | 7.7 (#59) |
| Package verification | Mamba can verify package tarballs and extracted package files, including file sizes and SHA-256 checksums; repository index verification is experimental and under active development. | The example configuration enables gpgcheck, and the package specification includes a plugin that verifies repository metadata signatures. |
| Purpose | Mamba is a fast, robust, cross-platform package manager that manages conda environments. | tdnf is an open-source, yum-compatible package manager designed to preserve package-management capabilities while keeping Photon OS small. |
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In their own words
Mamba
Mamba manages conda environments across Linux, macOS, Windows, API, and self-hosted setups. It creates and activates environments, installs packages, and runs commands inside them. It works with conda packages and supports most conda commands; its parallel downloads and libsolv solver speed package resolution. The framework includes the mamba command-line interface, the libmamba C++ library, micromamba, and Python bindings. Environment creation accepts text, Conda YAML, explicit, and conda-lock YAML specifications, and micromamba can install conda-lock files directly. The repoquery command searches repositories and can display direct, recursive, and reverse dependencies. Environments are self-contained prefixes that can manage native dependencies across programming languages. Mamba documents verification for package archives and extracted files, while repository index verification remains experimental. By default, it warns and asks for confirmation before transactions run package link scripts that can perform system operations. Mamba is free, open-source software under the BSD-3-Clause license, with lockfile support.