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Rockers - meta-package manager

Introduction

Rockers is a meta-package manager for managing packages across the various strata offered in StratOS. Rockers is a Rust rewrite of the Rock meta-package manager.

Salient features

  • Intuitive to use
  • Beginner-friendly subcommands
  • Visually appealing coloured output for distinguishing package managers
  • Numbered output for easy selection
  • Shell (currently only Fish) autocompletion for subcommands
  • Trivial to add new package managers

Roadmap

  • Autocompletion for package names

Difficult to implement since not all repositories can be queried (or respond quickly).

  • Ability to select multiple entries at once from the package listing

Installed Flatpak package info Autocomplete, pkg searching