Which extra package manager for cli applications? brew, nix, others, none?

1. Ansible

   1 407 64,359 9.8 Python

   Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

   

   Well, I'm using ansible to install/update stuff, but no doubt it will use the github API behind the scenes

2. CodeRabbit

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3. Home Manager using Nix

   2 189 7,706 9.9 Nix

   Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

   

   Linuxbrew is okay, but Nix is better. Nixpkgs (the Nix package repo) is the biggest software repo, has most of the latest versions. Nix is usable on Linux, MacOS and Windows WSL2 in the same way. Nix's reproducible and declarative build system allows something like home-manager, which is a declarative management system for apps and dotfiles, also running on Linux, Mac and WSL2. Whatever you configured on one system can be used on another system with another OS pretty easily.

4. topgrade

   3 56 3,468 8.3 Rust

   Discontinued Upgrade everything

   If you cannot avoid mixing package sources, then maybe topgrade would be useful to you. It leverages all package managers it can find on your system to upgrade all available packages. It works with apt, dnf, zypper, pacman, linuxbrew, nix, pkgsrc, and everything else you can imagine.

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