pakka

A cross platform meta package manager with auto snapshotting file system based transactions

Overview

The goal of this project is to improve the package manager user experience, and introduce a new type of audience to using package managers.

We are building a layer of abstraction above the system package manager, and making it such that you only need to learn a single package manager to use them all, although with a reduced feature set where applicable, such as with nix.

This project is especially targeted towards those who are stuck on a windows based fleet, but need a streamlined package manager with streamlined critical cve update notifications for installed software with opt out invasive notifications that force the end user to update.

Features

• CLI client
  • install and uninstall packages

Quick start guide

Install the CLI client

cargo install --locked pakka
pakka --help

For further install instructions read the Getting started page

Documentation

Visit the Documentation

Roadmap

• log structured event sourcing database to track installed packages over time
• export and import database to install the same packages on another machine
• update repos
• upgrade packages
• search packages
• list installed packages
• fully cross platform
• if snapshotting filesystem is available it will automatically create a snapshot pre and post package management
• package name mapper
• iced gui
• scan installed packages for cves
• option to limit strictly to open source software
• option to limit to white listed packages