> At a base level, I want to just not have to care whether I need to "brew install", "gem install", or "npm install -g" something: just give me one namespace an

> At a base level, I want to just not have to care whether I need to "brew install", "gem install", or "npm install -g" something: just give me one namespace and put everything I need in it once. If the tool could do just that, I'd be sold. That's why I tend to use Arch these days, almost all the npm, pip, etc. packages are in the AUR, and I can generally rely on yaourt and the AUR to compile and install it successfully about 90% of the time these days. > I've never understood why there isn't a "meta-package manager" that gives you one OS-and-platform-neutral CLI tool for invoking whatever the most relevant package management tooling would be, and then polyfills in the differences. That would be very nice. I remember something a few months ago about a windows CLI package manager called 'chocolatey', or something similar. I imagine that and powershell would enable us to finally have a true independent package manager at last.