alt Hacker News> Big fan! Was like magic at first but now I have a big bunch of Aptfiles to deal with instead... Currently working on solving that with the next-generation tool apt-bundle-bunch, which has a simple declarative format to manage your apt-bundle projects in an Aptbundlefile. It's already great for agents and Im working with Claude on a curl|sh install for the v1.
Good luck share the progress and let us know how it goes. Is it similar to nix? but from what I can feel, is intending to be simpler?
One key insight is that bundles are really sets of packages and that what we're doing when we bundle things is really just set join operations. Imagine the possibilities if we implement arbitrary set operations. So a bunch is defined as a set of bundles (which can themselves be down to a single package of course) and the declarations in the Aptbundlefile translates under the hood to references and set operations. This is not only declarative, it's also purely functional. Still working on if arbitrary set operations should be accessible by DSL in Aptbundlefile or if that should be left to tools building on top of intermediary API. So yeah, parallels to Nix for sure but it's still apt packages, not building the world from source.