I created a script that always installs apps from their official source
https://github.com/Tsu-gu/appfetch/
It’s a proof of concept of an idea I had a while ago. I dislike having to hunt down apps for my Linux machine when I want them from an official source. Some apps are packages as tarballs, some as .debs, some as install scripts that download a binary, some are flatpaks and snaps.
I created a yaml file with only verified apps from flathub and snapcraft, and added a few apps outside of them that I could think of.
The ultimate goal is the user just typing the names of what they want, and the script will just get it. They shouldn’t waste time with picking the right source.
I saw that “version” and “update” are inside apps.yaml instead inside the program itself like “search”. I see why version helps to be there which gets updated with the list, but the update link looks more like a quirk to be inside apps list. And it would make sense to distinguish program version and apps list version.
That’s a good point. I will also probably need a better update method than rm -rf-ing the files and replacing them with each update.