Decman – declarative package and configuration manager for Arch

Decman is a declarative package and configuration manager for Arch Linux. It allows you to manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically. Your system is configured using python so your configuration can be very adaptive.

Decman can be used to install pacman packages. Decman will install all packages defined in the source and remove all explicitly installed packages not defined in the source. You don’t need to list dependencies as those will be handeled by pacman. You can set packages to be ignored by decman, so that it won’t install them nor remove them.

Decman can install AUR packages as well as user defined packages. Foreign packages are AUR and user packages combined.

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/kiviktnm/decman
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Developer: Kivi Kaitaniemi
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Decman is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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