One store to rule every package manager.
Your system runs Pacman. Your other system runs DNF. Flatpak doesn't care which. Neither does npm, Cargo, Pipx, or RubyGems. PolyGet doesn't care either — it's a PySide6 desktop app (with a Textual TUI riding shotgun) that gives all of them one dashboard, one search bar, and one place to manage repos and remotes. 14 drivers, one interface, zero "wait, which package manager owns this again?"
Forged across two daily-driver machines that don't agree on anything by default: CachyOS (Arch-based) and Asahi Linux (Fedora-based) — which is exactly why the Pacman driver and the DNF driver both get held to the same standard, not just whichever one the author happened to be staring at that day.
run.py— GUI entry pointrequirements.txt— the usual suspectsapp/core/— the drivers and the shared base class they all answer toapp/ui/— PySide6 windows, styling, thread workers, and the TUIdocs/plans/— dated design docs; read these before re-deriving the why from a difftests/— the suite that keeps this honest
- No
shell=True. Ever. Every subprocess call usesasyncio.create_subprocess_execwith argument lists. Not a preference — the thing standing between "package search" and "arbitrary shell injection." - Distro-awareness has exactly one home.
app/core/distro.py. Anything that branches on distro family anywhere else is a bug wearing a "just this once" disguise. - The catalog shows what you could install, not just what's already there.
app/core/catalog.pyexists so the Manager Store doesn't just describe your system back to you.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python run.pyCLAUDE.md covers the design principles above in more depth, the previously-confirmed driver bugs
worth double-checking haven't crept back in, and this repo's cloud-environment quirks.
A rip-it-apart audit skill lives under .claude/skills/ and .claude/agents/ — six subagents
run in sequence (recon → verify → hunt bugs → find strengths → critique → write the fix plan) for
an honest, cited teardown whenever you want one.
A cloud environment is configured for Claude Code on the web — Ubuntu-based, with Flatpak, Pipx,
and headless Qt6 (QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen) ready for driver and UI work. Reality check: no
Pacman, no DNF, up there — those two only exist on real Arch and Fedora hardware, which is to say,
exactly where this project was always meant to be tested anyway.
MIT — see LICENSE.
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