Package managers

TODO

Articles

• What’s in a package

• There are (at least) two types of package managers

• The modern packager’s security nightmare

• GoFish, the Package Manager

• Linux package managers are slow (2019)

• What Is Guix Really?

• My Year With GNU Guix

• Managing Developer Environments with Conda

Courses / Videos

• An Introduction to GNU Guix

Links

• pkgsrc

• asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

• upm - Universal Package Manager - Python, Node.js, Ruby, Emacs Lisp

• fpm - Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity

• spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers

• entropic - a package registry for anything, but mostly javascript

• topgrade - Upgrade everything

• Awesome Package Manager