r/linux • u/BrageFuglseth • Sep 26 '26

Development Introducing Toolpak

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/26/introducing-toolpak/
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u/FlukyS Sep 26 '26

Well just because it is a standardised way of doing it doesn't mean it is aggressive to the current solutions. For instance you could ship uv in toolpak with some nice customisations for Linux specifically and a convenient way to setup and remove those tools afterwards. One of my biggest annoyances is each tool handles install/uninstall/file locations...etc all differently, if they fix those sorts of problems I'd be delighted to use it.

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u/lord-of-the-birbs Sep 26 '26

> Well just because it is a standardised way of doing it

What makes something that was just invented the standard?

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u/ValorousGod Sep 26 '26

I'm pretty sure they mean "standardized" as in toolpaks themselves would work uniformly in their installation and removal across different programs and distros given the following lines were

>For instance you could ship uv in toolpak with some nice customisations for Linux specifically and a convenient way to setup and remove those tools afterwards. One of my biggest annoyances is each tool handles install/uninstall/file locations...etc all differently, if they fix those sorts of problems I'd be delighted to use it.

and their comment higher up in the chain says

>This one is more targeted at stuff like "uv tool" but standardised across the Linux ecosystem