Emerge/portage, nix, ... Even macOS already has Homebrew (Linuxbrew is the Linux equiv), Fink (derived from APT), and MacPorts on top of the App Store and pack

Emerge/portage, nix, ... Even macOS already has Homebrew (Linuxbrew is the Linux equiv), Fink (derived from APT), and MacPorts on top of the App Store and package managers for programming languages like NPM (NodeJS), Cargo (Rust), Gem (Ruby). A nice command to upgrade all of these is Topgrade [1] which does all the upgrades for you, including even Tmux plugins. Of course it comes at the same price of a rolling distribution. Things will break occasionally. As for NPM since the company behind NPM is commercial, and it is centralized, it shouldn't be a surprise that there's alternatives. [1] https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade