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I would like to see a good open source package manager, built on the following principles:

- every package is a source code archive signed by the developer

- package manager takes care of compiling it for you

- package manager does not allow build scripts to download extra code or libraries

- dependencies are built from source by the manager, not downloaded as binaries

- there is a rating system to allow packages with obfuscated code to be dismissed

I think of this article (https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-m...) when it comes to package management.

I think of this: https://xkcd.com/927/

If its a cross-platform CLI it would be fantastic. Combine brew, chocolatey, yum, apt-get, snap, docker, git... you name it. Surely there is someone on this already?

Once saw someone build a CLI tool and distribute on npmjs. Their install went something like `npm install -g mycli`. So in a way, they already are cross-platform.

Nope. But it is really low hanging fruit. I really would hate to learn another set of commands.