I use nix & brew as my package managers on macOS.

Links

• ​Some nice comments on brew and nix package managers​

• ​Entropic - Federated package registry for anything.

• ​The economics of package management (Lobsters)

• ​Topgrade - Upgrade everything.

• ​Repology - Monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other information.

• ​Managing Developer Environments with Conda (2020)​

• ​Developers shouldn't distribute their own software (2020)​

• ​Spack - Flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

• ​rebuilderd - Independent verification of binary packages - reproducible builds.

• ​dripip - Opinionated CLI for continuous delivery of npm packages.

• ​PRIVJS - Implement access control to your npm packages.

• ​distri - Linux distribution to research fast package management. (Code)

• ​My Year With GNU Guix (2020)​

• ​What Is Guix Really? (2021)​

• ​Linux package managers are slow (2019) (Lobsters)

• ​pkgsrc - Framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 22,500 packages.

• ​Conda - OS-agnostic, system-level binary package manager and ecosystem. (Docs)

• ​Awesome Package Manager - Package manager resources.

• ​ossmalware - Attempts to use dynamic analysis to find malware hosted on package managers.

• ​GoFish - Cross-platform systems package manager, bringing the ease of use of Homebrew to Linux and Windows. (Code) (Fish Food)

• ​fpm - Packaging made simple. Goal of fpm is to make it easy and quick to build packages such as rpms, debs, macOS packages, etc. (Docs)

• ​The modern packager’s security nightmare (2021) (Lobsters)

• ​Ask HN: What is the most complex concept you understand? (2021)​

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

• ​Version SAT: Climbing Out the Dependency Hell​

• ​Deps - Command line tool for staying on top of dependencies. It runs updates, automates pull requests, and keeps your local installations in check.