Yafpm (Yet Another Functional Package Manager – likely not the final name) is a system package manager largely inspired by the Nix Package Manager and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

Yafpm takes its primary design inspiration from the Nix package manager. However, it is not a rewrite of Nix, but is exploring other decisions in the design space around Nix. An overview of some of these decisions is found in A Critique of Nix Package Manager.

Since this project is still in its early days, there is only one command: yafpm-build. This command will build and install a package that is described by a TOML or JSON file. Examples of these build files are found in the Yafpm Packages Repository. Currently there is no way to run a repository, or install a package from a repository, or uninstall anything (aside from using rm).

Yafpm is offered under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. This is found in the file named LICENSE.

Contributions are welcome! Please send your patch by Github pull request. Contributions must be given with a real name and email address (no pseudonyms or @noreply.github.com addresses, sorry), and with a commit message that ends Signed-off-by: [name] [email], to show that you have read and are meeting the terms of the Developer Certificate of Origin version 1.1, which is found in the file DeveloperCertificate.txt.