IDEAS.md

Ideas

10.12.2023

• Two-Way Interpretation of package manager scripts (e.g. apt-get and pacman) with automated name patching

15.12.2023

• Easy way of publishing packages through GENE. Just like cross compiling in rust gene --publish . but this feature would require a lot of work.

Some Package Manager problems

• devel packages not being separate
• version mismatch
• non-existent packages
• different packages with the same name (eg rename vs perl-rename)

Dictionary

Name Patching

The process of translating package names between package managers.

.--------.---------------.
| GPacR  | jasper        |<--.   .--> Err: Package `jasper` not found for your system package manager: `scoop`
|--------|---------------|   |  |
| Nix    | jasper        |---|  |
| APT    | libjasper-dev |---'  |
| Scoop  | NaN           |------'
'--------'---------------'

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107246/is-there-a-map-of-package-names-across-the-different-package-management-systems

Two Way Interpretation

The process of translating package manager scripts between package managers.

.------------.---------------.      
| Chocolatey | choco install |---.  .-----------------------------------------.  .-------------.
| Pacman     | pacman -S     |---|--| GENE-TWIN (GENE Two-Way Interpretation) |--| YOUR SYSTEM |---> xbps-install
| APT        | apt install   |---'  '-----------------------------------------'  '-------------'
'------------'---------------'