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Your project seems to be exactly what I was looking for for a long while. The Nix home-manager seems to solve all common problems, but it relies on nix with can be a heavy burden. It's also not clear how it can work on a VanillaOS system where nix runs in a container, whereas the home directory is shared between all containers afaik.

Your solution is free of any dependencies, except your own binary. Although the solution is still imperative through a declarative configuration, so it can't know about states, it's still a great middle ground when it comes to the deployment of home software. But, I want to preferably install software through the primary package manager of the system for the best support and storage, but this can't work with if_os: linux.

Maybe a package manager expression would be beneficial for this.

if_pkg: apt - runs only when apt is available, if_pkg: apx - an example for vanillaOS. It still needs a solution to skip other package managers when it found one, because I don't want to install the same software from two package managers. So any task also needs an id, so it can skip tasks with the same id that have run already.

An alternative route would be to just determine Linux flavors from their origin. I just want to make a difference between Debian based distros, Arch, VanillaOS, Alpine, but I would not necessarily require a difference between Debian/Ubuntu, both have apt.

Have you ever considered something like this?