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The other day I was looking for a simple, lightweight userspace binary package manager. Nix was exciting for a minute until I realized it requires root to install unless you jump through hoops.

My goal is to be able to have something so lightweight and fast I don't hesitate to use it to install my favorite packages on every ephemeral VM I spin up. Anything like this out there?



Nix does need root by default, but I use this https://github.com/nix-community/nix-user-chroot on all the Linux boxes I use.


Have you tried Homebrew?


I gave it a shot. It was way to slow for my use case. And I think it was several hundred MBs just for homebrew itself if I recall correctly.

Maybe software these days just has too many recursive dependencies.




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