> I also tried having a meta-package, which has my “list of wanted packages” as dependencies, and then remove anything no required my it. Again, I needed extra scripts and complexity on top of the package manager itself.
I have something similar for my dotfiles, a list of packages, their manager and version in a TOML file: https://github.com/kdeldycke/dotfiles/blob/main/packages.tom...
I then feed this to meta-package-manager[1] to install:
$ mpm restore ./packages.toml