[FEAT] List of currently unsupported package managers

[AlbydST]

I'm making a list of package managers currently unsupported by fastfetch, currently I have:

• AppImage
• Devbox
• Rad
• ScratchPKG
• TCE
• CPT
• KISS
• Pacstall
• NPM
• pip
• Bonsai
• URPMI
• Birb

(Let me know if I have missed any!)
Are these going to be supported in the future?

[CarterLi]

npm and pip will not be supported as they are programming language specific. Pacstall packages should be counted as dpkg if it works like AUR for pacman.

I don't know others. They won't be supported if no one would like to contribute.

[darwincereska]

Where would I find in the code to add the package managers. I want to add Appimage

[CarterLi]

https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/blob/dev/src%2Fdetection%2Fpackages%2Fpackages_linux.c

[Elsie19]

npm and pip will not be supported as they are programming language specific. Pacstall packages should be counted as dpkg if it works like AUR for pacman.

I don't know others. They won't be supported if no one would like to contribute.

If you are going to count Pacstall packages, you should get the amount of files in /var/lib/pacstall/metadata.

[yesseruser]

Winget packages get shown as choco packages (even though I don't have Chocolatey installed)

[CarterLi]

@Elsie19 What does ls -l /var/lib/pacstall/metadata print?

@yesseruser That's a different issue. Please file a new one.

[Elsie19]

@Elsie19 What does ls -l /var/lib/pacstall/metadata print?

@yesseruser That's a different issue. Please file a new one.

It just has pacstall metadata files. If you get the amount of files in that directory, you have the amount of packages pacstall is tracking.

Output

alacritty
amfora-bin
ananicy-cpp
an-anime-game-launcher-bin
ani-cli-bin
appimagelauncher-deb
balena-etcher-deb
bat-deb
bazecor-app
brave-browser-beta-deb
brave-browser-nightly-deb
brave-keyring-deb
dbeaver-ce-deb
discord-canary
element-desktop-deb
eza-git
fake-ubuntu-advantage-tools-deb
ferium-bin
firefox-bin
go-bin
goverlay
htop
hyperfine-bin
hyprland-bin
hyprpaper
kvantum
libtomlplusplus-header
lyrebird-git
mangohud
minecraft-launcher-deb
mold-bin
nala-deb
neofetch
neovim
nushell-bin
nu-tongues-bin
oil
pacstall-qa-git
pacup
pap
protonmail-bridge-deb
renpy-full
rhino-pkg-git
shellharden
shfmt-bin
uwufetch
xcb-util-errors
xonotic
yad
yafetch-git
yt-dlp

[CarterLi]

@Elsie19 Please test the dev build

[Elsie19]

Winget packages get shown as choco packages (even though I don't have Chocolatey installed)

It works!

[yesseruser]

Winget packages get shown as choco packages (even though I don't have Chocolatey installed)

It works!

Winget packages are on Windows. You are using Ubuntu which Winget does not and will probably never support.

[Elsie19]

Oop! I replied to the wrong message. I meant to @CarterLi!

[rav101]

Moss packages from SerpentOS: https://github.com/serpent-os

Solus has stated that it will eventually move over to SerpentOS tooling so this would also be relevant for that distro in time.

[CarterLi]

@rav101 Hello. How can I acquire the count of moss packages without spawning new processes?

[ikeycode]

@rav101 Hello. How can I acquire the count of moss packages without spawning new processes?

That's something we'll have up and running in the next few weeks by way of the varlink interface, but if there is something simpler that could assist we're open to it (ie a marker file on disk, relative to /usr)