> The ALPM project arose from the need for more clearly specifying the interfaces, as well as providing bindings and tools in a memory-safe programming language.

Whose need?

As an admin and a user I kindly ask: why? what for?

`pacman` which has been and is working fine for over two decades on multiple architectures is two packages - and that includes mirror finder.

This project seems like a CS exercise: funded by a grant, designed by committee, producing a lot of complex artifacts (already over a dozen packages)... and it's unclear if the lot of that can even install a single package.

Lots of information on the how, but didn't find much telling me why. I guess there are good reasons for ALPM. The linked website tells me "The ALPM project arose from the need for more clearly specifying the interfaces, as well as providing bindings and tools in a memory-safe programming language."

This is a bit more useful but still a little short of "pacman but in rust"

This looks both cool and over-engineered. For some reason it gives me a bit of flashback to Java6 days of EE Bean servers though with crates upon crates.

Plus take the winnow library parser example. I’m not sure it’s gonna be easier to follow or debug than a standard recursive descent parser:

    fn hex_primary(input: &mut &str) -> Result<u8> {
        take_while(2, |c: char|  c.is_ascii_hexdigit())
            .try_map(|input| u8::from_str_radix(input, 16))
            .parse_next(input)
    }

As a user, is anything going to change? I don't want to need to know about whatever this is. Everything already works fine. Are you planning on breaking it?