About

A meta package manager inspired by rebos

Mostly made for the same reasons as rebos, but with a different approach to determining the system's state: Meta has no generation tracking. Instead system state is determined using each managers 'list' command. This solves one of the main problems I've had when using rebos: the 'built' generation and the actual system getting out of sync. While this does increase the burden the individual managers have to bear, all of the ones I personally use already have a built-in way to get their items

Features i want to implement:

• Managers
  • User-defined
  • Ordering
  • System state always dynamically determined by managers
  • Maybe user-defined additional options
• Configs
  • Modular
  • Different machines
• No generation tracking, should be handled by git

Managers

• Each manager is a file in the managers/ subdirectory
• The ordering of the managers is defined in manager_order

Commands

• add: command for adding one or multiple items
  • will be replaced by a single item, by all of them, separated by spaces
• remove: command for removing one or multiple items (same formatting as above)
• upgrade: command for upgrading all items (does not receive any items for meta)
• list: command for listing all installed items, separated by newlines
  • used for determining the system state

Options

• remove_then_add: first remove then add items
• items_separator: The separator to use when filling in the in format commands. Defaults to space

Implemented Managers

Can be found in meta-managers

Configs

• Each machine has a "root" config file, found at machines/{machine name}.toml
• Further config files are located in the configs/ subdirectory, and can be imported by file name using imports = ["foo", "bar"]
• These config files can also import other config files
• Specifying items is done by using {manager name} = ["foo", "bar"] in any config file
• All arrays can also be replaced by single-item strings

File structure

configs/
├── common.toml
└── rust.toml
machines/
├── laptop.toml
└── pc.toml
managers/
├── cargo.toml
├── files.toml
├── rustup_component.toml
├── rustup_toolchain.toml
├── service.toml
├── service_startup.toml
└── pacman.toml
files/
├── common/
├── laptop/
├── pc/
manager_order