alt Hacker NewsSystem package managers (at least apt & portage) have a whole bunch of hooks. I guess this is talking about language package managers.
TFA is also a bit hazy on what hooks exactly?
System package managers (at least apt & portage) have a whole bunch of hooks. I guess this is talking about language package managers.
TFA is also a bit hazy on what hooks exactly?
`PreInstall` mainly. But `PreFetch/PreBuild` also for source-repositories, such as AUR helpers.
homebrew doesn't support hooks as a system package manager: https://github.com/ecosyste-ms/package-manager-hooks as an example.
I think the packaging ecosystem is varied enough that this should be left for the package managers to decide. Yarn allows dependency resolution and WebFetch overrides in its hooks for eg.