repology-updater
meta-package-manager
| repology-updater | meta-package-manager | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 13 | |
| 477 | 439 | |
| 2.1% | - | |
| 8.9 | 9.5 | |
| 9 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
repology-updater
- Repology, the Packaging Hub
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What is the Fedora experience like?
For comparing package versions across distros, I like https://repology.org/. Fedora's official online package search is https://packages.fedoraproject.org/.
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NixOS RFC 136 accepted: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally
fwiw nixpkgs has significantly more packages than arch (including the aur), and those packages are also significantly more up to date. No other repo comes close to nixpkgs in this regard. This has been the case for quite some years now.
https://repology.org/
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Package repo question, availability of packages
I think available package number is a bit of an exaggeration. looking at the statistics, the most packages are on nixOS. but there are other topics such as number of maintainers, update and stability. so middle ground is debian testing and arch. i suggest repology.org to look stats
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Couple of noob questions
I believe it likely was a comparision in number of packages, currently nixpkgs outnumber AUR (although it also contains packages that are part of other languages): https://repology.org/
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Linux Software Map
I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/
Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.
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ubuntu-debullshit! Script to get vanilla gnome, remove snaps, flathub and more on Ubuntu
I know that "number of packages" isn't a perfect metric, but going by that Nixpkgs is the largest (see https://repology.org/).
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Is it possible to install older versions of XFCE (such as 4.14)
to find a distro still supporting that version you can use https://repology.org/ or https://pkgs.org
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I hope nobody has done that
FreeBSD also has its own ports system which has 29678 (source: repology.org) packaged project.
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Remembrance, a reminder app for Linux
According to repology nix is third place in term of the number of maintainers.
meta-package-manager
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Writing a Package Manager
Something like Meta Package Manager? https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager
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Looking for a tool that updates all system language-specific packages (npm, pip, cargo, gem etc)
I use https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager
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TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)
The result: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/commit/3ab...
- In Praise of Alpine and APK
- mpm – Meta Package Manager – wraps package managers with a unifying CLI
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Recent Apple Updates Leading to WiFi Issues
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.
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Show HN: Meta Package Manager, a CLI that solves Xkcd #1654
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 -
What are some of your favorite CLI/TUI apps?
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?
- Meta Package Manager – One CLI for all package managers
- GitHub - kdeldycke/meta-package-manager: 📦 one CLI for all package managers
What are some alternatives?
NiceOS - Every Linux distro replacement
apt-offline - Offline APT Package Manager
pipupgrade - 🗽 Like yarn outdated/upgrade, but for pip. Upgrade all your pip packages and automate your Python Dependency Management.
pacapt - An ArchLinux's pacman-like shell wrapper for many package managers. 56KB and run anywhere.
AppOutlet - A Universal linux app store
pacaptr - Pacman-like syntax wrapper for many package managers.
nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
macupdater - Auto-update macOS using package managers like mas, homebrew, npm and gem all in one go.
thanker - Don't be a wanker, be a thanker! Automatically give thanks to Pypi packages you use in your project.
MacOS-Menu-Bar-Picker - Costum menu bar entry for MacOS - build with rumps and py2app.
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
flatpak-external-data-checker - A tool for checking if the external data used in Flatpak manifests is still up to date