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Hi, this is just a suggestion, but, through the use of statically linked binaries, you can get rid of the hard-dependencies on jq, bash, etc, by using the bigdl binary manager like this: "wget -qO- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xplshn/bigdl/master/stubdl" | sh -s -- run --transparent jq", you could even get rid of the hard dependency on bash by using "wget -qO- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xplshn/bigdl/master/stubdl" | sh -s -- run --transparent bash <<BASH_SCRIPT"

Bigdl is a small, suckless package manager written in Go, and it provides more than 1550 statically linked binaries

Another thing that can be done, is, integrate such statically linked binaries directly into brain.sh, using something like https://github.com/xplshn/Handyscripts/blob/master/pelf or doing it manually, PELF basically packages a program + its dependencies + an optional wrapper + optional libs and files into a single binary that can be used the same way as the original program.

I really wish to cooperate and add more binaries to BigDl and I think your project and mine could benefit a lot by cooperating.

Implementation of brain package manager search/info/list

brain neurons search <package_name>
brain neurons list all
brain neurons list installed
brain neurons info <package_name>

To think:

• How we will implement list all?
  • I am planning to use some api if any and get files names
• How to list installed packages?
  • Maybe store?
• How to make info ?
  • I am planning to include some thing like

     # Package Name: <name>
    

  In the sh files of each one , so we can just get first few lines somehow

A custom help command for each command is needed since we can't list all in usage.

I am planning to implement this via making functions which get invoked at these 2 conditions

• The user missed required args for it / left empty
• It's wrong

Implementation of this can be like this one -

neurons_usage() {
    echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") [options] [command]"
    echo "Commands:"
    echo "  list all        List all available packages"
    echo "  list installed  List locally installed packages"
    echo "  search          Search for a package"
    echo "  info            Show information about a package"
    echo ""
    echo "For more information, visit https://github.com/neobrains/brain"
}