pellets
A declarative pacman wrapper for Arch Linux to manage installed packages with a single configuration file (by dpatti)
dotfiles
By dpatti
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pellets
Posts with mentions or reviews of pellets.
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pellets: manage your packages with a configuration file
Hello! A while back I made pellets as a way of keeping track what I installed on my system so that I could clean up things I didn't need anymore. It also made setting up a new machine much quicker. Really what I wanted was something like Nix, but I went on a very long saga trying to use it as a package manager with Arch and it was... not viable. So I made pellets as a middle-ground: it's just a simple bash wrapper around pacman and doesn't demand complete control, but you can use a configuration file to keep your packages synchronized to a desired state. It also prunes old dependencies. I've been using it for over a year now and am really happy with the result.
dotfiles
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pellets: manage your packages with a configuration file
And if anyone is curious, this is roughly what my config looks like: https://github.com/dpatti/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/pellets/packages
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pellets and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:
archfi - Arch Linux Fast Installer : tutorial installer
wslu - A collection of utilities for Windows Subsystem for Linux
pacdef - multi-backend declarative package manager for Linux
nix-1p - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.