`pkgx list-installed`

[felipecrs]

I'm aiming to fully replace Homebrew with pkgx in my dotfiles.

However, my dotfiles:

• Automatically installs missing tools
• Automatically uninstalls some tools I no longer want

And in order to perform that with pkgx, I need to fetch a list of pkgs already installed. Something like:

$ pkgx list-installed
openjdk.org@11
nodejs.org
yarnpkg.com

# a tool I want to have installed
$ if ! pkgx list-installed | grep -w openjdk.org@11; then pkgx install openjdk.org@11; fi

# a tool I do not want to have
$ if pkgx list-installed | grep -w asciinema.org; then pkgx uninstall asciinema.org; fi

[dosubot[bot]]

It's great to see that you're aiming to fully replace Homebrew with pkgx in your dotfiles! Your plan to automatically install missing tools and uninstall unwanted ones with pkgx sounds like a solid approach. If you're able to implement the functionality to fetch a list of installed packages and create a script like the one you've outlined, it would be a valuable contribution to the pkgx community. Keep up the good work, and feel free to create a pull request if you'd like to share your solution with the community!

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[jhheider]

That seems like something that could (and probably should) easily be added to https://github.com/pkgxdev/mash. In its simplest form, it's really something like grep -l pkgx ~/.local/bin/*.

[felipecrs]

I ended up with:

$ grep -rIhoP 'exec pkgx \+\K[^ ]+' "${HOME}/.local/bin" | sort -u
bun.sh
crates.io/bat
crates.io/hyperfine
deno.land
github.com/hadolint/hadolint
github.com/helmfile/helmfile
jfrog.com/jfrog-cli
nodejs.org
opendev.org/git-review
rust-lang.org/cargo
werf.io

Or the uncompressed variant:

grep --recursive --binary-files=without-match --no-filename --only-matching --perl-regexp 'exec pkgx \+\K[^ ]+' "${HOME}/.local/bin" | sort --unique

[felipecrs]

Here's an one-liner to uninstall all existing pkgx installed apps:

$ grep -rIhoP 'exec pkgx \+\K[^ ]+' "${HOME}/.local/bin" | sort -u | xargs -r pkgx uninstall
uninstalled: deno.land
uninstalled: maven.apache.org
uninstalled: openjdk.org

[felipecrs]

And just in case others may find it useful, I built logic in my dotfiles to automate management of pkgx installed stuff:

1. Check if a pkgx package is installed or not (here)

2. Refresh/recreate/update all stubs (here)

3. Updating packages for installed stubs without installing them in case they have not been executed yet (here)

[mxcl]

Yeah we're leaning towards mash scripts for now here. I think for pkgx v2 the install command will become its own package built on pkgx tech, as we intend for dev.

[iyefrat]

I think that having something like this (also as a mash script) would be a significant usability improvement. There is already https://github.com/pkgxdev/mash/blob/main/scripts/pantry-inventory.ts, a few more similar scripts that are documented on the website would make the project much easier to use as a brew replacement.