proton-shunt VS portmod

There is simply no need for native modding tools, when we aren't dealing with native games, IMO. Better to just use a shunt program, to trick Steam into launching the Windows mod manager directly. Then you know it's going to work as Valve intended, and you can manage everything through Steam like normal.

I'm looking at portmod but now that I've got it set up finally, it looks like it doesn't actually install that list? It just installs individual mods!? From here is says to check out the basic usage guide, but that guide only shows how to install mods individually

As far as I know, downloading and installing each mod is the main method for the modding-openmw lists.

There is a tool to try to automate game modlist installs called Wabbajack [1]. It was briefly discussed on the openmw forums [2]. I'm not sure if anyone has tried further to get the modding-openmw lists working with it. I have never used Wabbajack, so I don't know too much other than it exists. It still seems to have extra requirements according to the post, including a premium NexusMods account if you don't want to manually download everything.

Just as I typed all the above I saw a mention of portmod [3] in the modding-openmw guide about mod managers. Seems it's like Gentoo's portage, but for game mods. I see it has some meta packages for modding-openmw in their ebuild-like repository [4], but I don't think any of the big lists have been updated in awhile. Also, there again seems to be issues with it auto downloading from NexusMods mentioned in the issue tracker. Nevertheless, it looks to be an interesting project.

[1] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack

[2] https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?t=7581

[3] https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod

[4] https://portmod.gitlab.io/openmw-mods/meta-momw/

There's a similar issue which seems to be related to git bash/msys in some way: https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod/-/issues/386

I use portmod and like it, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it unless you are willing to learn (1) how to write your own Pybuild files or (2) use emerge.

I don't know if it can help your project, but there is a cross-platform CLI package manager for mods called portmod.

portmod - a CLI mod manager

Found this: https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod/-/issues/209

Portmod[0] is a package manager for game modifications (currently Morrowind and Doom), and it runs sandboxed Python scripts to install individual packages. So I think this is possible, but it's not a built-in feature of the runtime as is the case for deno.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/portmod/portmod