Cross-Distro Support

Declarch is distro-agnostic. Real behavior depends on which backend binaries and backend configs are available.

How to think about it

• Declarch = coordinator.
• Backends = actual package-manager commands.
• You can mix distro/system + language backends in one file.

Common backend groups

• Arch-oriented: aur, pacman
• Debian/Ubuntu: apt, nala
• Fedora/RHEL: dnf
• Universal: flatpak, snap, nix, soar
• Language/dev: npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, cargo, pip, gem, go

Starter commands

Arch-based

declarch init
declarch init --backend paru,yay

Debian/Ubuntu

declarch init
declarch init --backend apt,nala,npm,cargo

Fedora

declarch init
declarch init --backend dnf,flatpak,npm,cargo

Fallback examples

• nala -> apt
• yay -> pacman
• bun -> npm
• aur -> paru -> yay -> pacman

Fallback keeps workflows usable when preferred binary is missing.

Improve support

Contribute backend definitions and fixes:

• https://github.com/nixval/declarch-packages