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Meh... Here is the exact case you mention, just WAY worst. This is something I did for chocolatey community: https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7... This page is report of the PowerShell framework I developed mostly in first year of development (https://github.com/majkinetor/au) that checks ~250 web sites for updates on various software. Today it has 6 errors and usually never much more. On my own location I keep ~60 packages and I I tackle errors maybe once a year. Stuff just work, and you rarely have to visit, otherwise I would be involved entire day into this and I am not, while those packages have many millions of users. Now I spend almost 0 time maintaining packages and I am one of the top choco package owners. Check out the options used, some of which make it so robust: https://github.com/chocolatey-community

> I mean, it is a chocolatey, because they allow multiple packaged for the same software. I think this is more healthy then having one with maintainers refusing to do stuff you may need. The real thing would be for vendors releasing packages but we are far from that in Windows land. My hope for MS WinGet was that since it is backup from MS that vendors will adopt it, but since it sucks, this will probably not be the case. > I meant that packages are often not updated by the maintainers. Yeah, that was the problem far more before then today. I created AU to solve that issue [1]. [1]: https://github.com/majkinetor/au

Chocolatey is the only thing I use to install stuff both on CI and on each dev machine and I regularly create packages for it [1]. I worked hard to make what I need stable and not depend on their existence - [2] and all the repos using the same methodology release packages on GH [4] and there is a handy script to install from there. I also created AU for it [3] and managed to convince people to embed software in packages [5] so packages always work (you can cache them on your own via file system, artifactory, nexus etc). You can also host your own gallery in number of different ways. So, in short, there is escape plan. TBH, it looks like choco is going better then ever. And you can't simply find any better repository for sw, its better and more up to date then most linux package repos (on par with Arch). > I am not that into the way MS is

I disagree. All GUI tools are limited and soon you get out of the comfort zone if you use them for more then 2 things. That is the main reason I created AU framework[^1] for chocolatey which main choco repo uses to daily watch and update 250+ packages[^2]. Previously they used Ketarin tool which is GUI and was very limited and hard to on-board too. Its basically this, but you program simple PowerShell functions that can check for changes using whatever available in .NET. The same goes for any declarative tool - you simply need a good programming language all the time. [^1] https://github.com/majkinetor/au [^2] https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...