snack 🍿

Idiomatic Go wrappers for system package managers.

snack provides thin, context-aware Go bindings for system package managers. Think taigrr/systemctl but for package management.

Part of the grlx ecosystem.

Supported Package Managers

Package	Manager	Platform	Status
pacman	pacman	Arch Linux	🚧
aur	AUR (makepkg)	Arch Linux	🚧
apk	apk-tools	Alpine Linux	🚧
apt	APT (apt-get/apt-cache)	Debian/Ubuntu	🚧
dpkg	dpkg	Debian/Ubuntu	🚧
dnf	DNF	Fedora/RHEL	🚧
rpm	RPM	Fedora/RHEL	🚧
flatpak	Flatpak	Cross-distro	🚧
snap	snapd	Cross-distro	🚧
pkg	pkg(8)	FreeBSD	🚧
ports	ports/packages	OpenBSD	🚧
detect	Auto-detection	All	🚧

Install

go get github.com/gogrlx/snack

Usage

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/gogrlx/snack"
    "github.com/gogrlx/snack/apt"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()
    mgr := apt.New()

    // Install a package
    err := mgr.Install(ctx, []string{"nginx"}, snack.WithSudo(), snack.WithAssumeYes())
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    // Check if installed
    installed, err := mgr.IsInstalled(ctx, "nginx")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println("nginx installed:", installed)
}

Auto-detection

import "github.com/gogrlx/snack/detect"

mgr, err := detect.Default()
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Println("Detected:", mgr.Name())

Design

• Thin CLI wrappers — each sub-package wraps a package manager's CLI tools. No FFI, no library bindings.
• Common interface — all managers implement snack.Manager, making them interchangeable.
• Context-aware — all operations accept context.Context for cancellation and timeouts.
• Platform-safe — build tags ensure packages compile everywhere but only run where appropriate.
• No root assumption — use snack.WithSudo() when elevated privileges are needed.

Implementation Priority

1. pacman + AUR (Arch Linux)
2. apk (Alpine Linux)
3. apt + dpkg (Debian/Ubuntu)
4. dnf + rpm (Fedora/RHEL)
5. flatpak + snap (cross-distro)
6. pkg + ports (BSD)

CLI

A companion CLI tool is planned for direct terminal usage:

snack install nginx
snack remove nginx
snack search redis
snack list
snack upgrade

License

0BSD — see LICENSE.