pacdef
multi-backend declarative package manager for Linux (by steven-omaha)
grappa
Behavior-oriented, expressive, human-friendly Python assertion library for the 21st century (by grappa-py)
| pacdef | grappa | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | |
| 291 | 134 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 9.4 | 0.0 | |
| 7 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Rust | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pacdef
Posts with mentions or reviews of pacdef.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-15.
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My own computer gaslighted me
A new thing that made package management on Arch neater for me is pacdef.
- pacdef, the declarative package manager for Arch, releases v1.0.0
- rewrite it in rust: pacdef releases v1.0.0
- (AUR) Package & Config Sync
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pellets: manage your packages with a configuration file
Cool project! Have you explored pacdef? It seems to be that blessed middle ground between Arch and Nix.
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Pacman Feature Idea
This isn't quite what you are looking for, but you could consider a declarative package manager, which covers this use case as well. There's e.g. https://github.com/steven-omaha/pacdef
- Saving packages with comments
- Cannot create PKGBUILD that depends on AUR packages
grappa
Posts with mentions or reviews of grappa.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pacdef and grappa you can also consider the following projects:
archinstall - Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
pytest - The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
aconfmgr - A configuration manager for Arch Linux
givenpy - A simple framework inspired by BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for Python to structure your tests
nix-1p - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.
hitchstory - Type-safe YAML integration tests. Tests that write your docs. Tests that rewrite themselves.
pellets - A declarative pacman wrapper for Arch Linux to manage installed packages with a single configuration file