pacapt VS meta-package-manager

pacapt?

i use debian on some remote servers and, thankfully found this, which i immediately installed https://github.com/icy/pacapt because i have no idea how to successfully use apt. plus, i hate the formatting. so, nala is a positive, for sure!

You can do --sync --search but that isn't much better. There is this neat tool however: https://github.com/icy/pacapt I recently used it because I was in a hurry and had not time to read up on SLES and an ancient CentOS install I was forced to deal with. But I guess you had the opposite in mind.

The Arch Rosetta page spawned the lovely https://github.com/icy/pacapt , which is an automated form I use everywhere despite not actually having used Arch in years.

Oh dude, pacapt is your friend!

here ya go, buddy. -- https://github.com/icy/pacapt

You should take a look at pacapt

Like pacapt but the other way around

Something like Meta Package Manager? https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager

I use https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager

The result: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/commit/3ab...

Source: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/

With regular snapshots you can at least eliminate new installed software as the root cause of an issue. Doesn't solve the issue with preferences though.

and let it figure out which package manager to use to install your package.

The project is open-source: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager#readme

This CLI has some other capabilities, like listing the duplicate packages on your system:

    $ mpm list --duplicates

Potentially somewhat answering my own question (but not completely; i am still interested in your answer) you might be interested in https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager is it along the same lines?