These are the TODO items for the Haiku '''Package Management'''.

=== packagefs ===
  * Implement caching for uncompressed package file heap chunks.
  * If necessary, add a caching mechanism to speed up mounting it.

=== Package Daemon ===
  * Add user notification/interaction support for initial verification (on start-up) and manual package de-/installation.
  * Support packages being copied to the `packages` directory. Currently only moving works.

=== Build system ===
  * Add hybrid support.

=== Package building ===
  * Define packaging guidelines and create a tool to check packages against those.
  * Adjust build "recipes" for HaikuPorts packages as needed and build the packages.
    * Status: There's a package management [https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/commits/all/tip/package-management branch of haikuports] with recipes for most packages already updated for building HPKGs. Here's an [wiki:PackageManagement/PackagesStatus overview].

=== Package kit/manager ===
  * Add distribution update support.
  * Implement a GUI package manager.

=== Boot loader ===
  * Safe mode/recovery options:
    - Disable home and common.
    - Boot into old system state.

=== Package/package repository format ===
  * Add a package attribute (string) that specifies a base package of a package. For most ported software, the files resulting from a built are usually separated into different packages (base, develop, debug-info, doc, etc.). All of these packages should be installed in the same installation location, since they have been built with the same installation prefix. In order to enforce such a constraint, one of the packages should be declared in the "requires" list of the others and they should additionally use the new attribute to identify it as the base package.
  * Add support for repository keys (public/private) and package signing/check sums, so that it is possible to verify that data retrieved from a repository have not been tempered with.

=== Miscellaneous ===
  * Modify Expander to use a directory instead of the `expander.rules` file. This way a package (like xz-utils or p7zip) can contribute a single file with the rules for its tools. Ticket: #8494
  * Add MIME directory watching to registrar, so it can update the MIME DB caches when packages are de-/activated.
  * Get rid of post_install scripts. Do that in the build system.
  * Get rid of UserBootscript. Start the scripts in "~/config/settings/boot/launch" from Bootscript instead.
  * Update Installer.