tori/docs/development/user-packages.md

In order to take advantage of all the features offered by tori for package management, the operating system's package manager must provide a way to:

• install and uninstall packages from a command-line interface
• query manually installed packages

The packages file is located at the root of the configuration directory and contains a list of package names, one per line. Blank lines and lines beginning with # are ignored.

When processing the package list, tori will compare the list of installed packages to the list in the configuration and ask the user for what action to take in order to conciliate them, unless a default action has been specified.

For information on how the application determines differences between the configuration package list and installed packages, see check.