These are the TODO items for the Haiku Package Management.

packagefs

• If necessary, add a caching mechanism to speed up mounting it.

Package Daemon

• Add support for executing post-install scripts.
• Add support for extracting and updating settings files.
• Add support for creating/removing users/groups.
• Add support for base package.
• 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 ​branch of haikuports with recipes for most packages already updated for building HPKGs. Here's an overview.

Package kit/manager

• Add support for base package.
• 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 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 tampered 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.