dev-tools

name	dev-tools
description	Developer tools including bat, ripgrep, neovim, direnv, fd-find, htop, podman-compose, and many more CLI utilities. Use when working with developer tooling, CLI utilities, or container dev environments.

dev-tools -- Developer CLI utilities

Candy Properties

Property	Value
Install files	charly.yml, plan:

Packages

RPM (with --setopt=tsflags=noscripts): android-tools, apptainer, apptainer-suid, arch-install-scripts, asciinema, bat, bcc, bpftop, bpftrace, bridge-utils, debootstrap, direnv, dislocker, ecryptfs-utils, fastfetch, fd-find, fdupes, fuse-devel, fuse-dislocker, fuse3-devel, html2text, htop, jdupes, mosh, neovim, podman-compose, podman-machine, podman-remote, podman-tui, qemu-kvm, qemu-user-binfmt, qemu-user-static, rclone, restic, ripgrep, ShellCheck, squashfuse, strace, sysstat, thefuck, yamllint, yq, zoxide

Cross-distro coverage

rpm: (Fedora), pac: (Arch), deb: (Debian + generic Ubuntu), with a ubuntu:24.04: tag-section override. Not every package is available everywhere; per-distro drops are documented inline in charly.yml.

Packages dropped per distro (non-exhaustive):

• Arch: apptainer-suid, dislocker, ecryptfs-utils, fuse-dislocker, podman-machine, podman-remote, podman-tui — not packaged.
• Debian: same drops as Arch, plus arch-install-scripts (obviously) and apptainer itself (only in bookworm-backports, skipped on trixie).
• Ubuntu 24.04: additionally drops fastfetch — package not in noble main. Handled by a ubuntu:24.04: tag section that re-lists the deb packages minus fastfetch.

bat → batcat symlink (Debian/Ubuntu)

Both Debian and Ubuntu rename bat → batcat in their archives to avoid a namespace collision with a legacy bacula utility. The bat package installs only /usr/bin/batcat; nothing lives at /usr/bin/bat. To keep downstream scripts, docs, and declarative tests portable, the candy ships a distro-tolerant symlink plan step:

# a child step node under the dev-tools candy entity
dev-tools-symlink-bat:
    run: symlink batcat to bat on Debian/Ubuntu
    command: |
        if [ -f /usr/bin/batcat ] && [ ! -e /usr/bin/bat ]; then
          ln -sf /usr/bin/batcat /usr/bin/bat
        fi
    run_as: root

No-op on Fedora/Arch (where /usr/bin/bat already exists from the distro package) — the guard short-circuits. Creates the symlink on Debian/Ubuntu. Idempotent across rebuilds.

fastfetch test — exclude_distros: [ubuntu:24.04]

The fastfetch-binary test is declared with an exclude_distros: filter:

# an id-named check step node under the dev-tools candy entity
fastfetch-binary:
    check: the fastfetch binary is installed (skipped on ubuntu:24.04)
    id: fastfetch-binary
    file: /usr/bin/fastfetch
    exists: true
    exclude_distros:
        - ubuntu:24.04

On images whose ai.opencharly.platform.distro OCI label includes ubuntu:24.04, the test runner skips this check with a reason — see /charly-check:check "exclude_distros: field". This was added because dropping fastfetch from the ubuntu:24.04: tag section is clean, but the baked test probe would otherwise false-fail.

Git tooling lives in /charly-coder:gh

dev-tools does NOT install gh, git, or git-lfs — those belong exclusively to /charly-coder:gh, the dedicated GitHub / git tooling candy. That keeps ownership unambiguous (one candy installs and tests them). If you want the git tooling, compose /charly-coder:gh alongside /charly-coder:dev-tools.

Usage

# charly.yml — composition is a child node, not a top-level list
my-dev:
    candy:
        base: fedora
    my-dev-candy:
        candy:
            - dev-tools

Used In Boxes

• (none currently enabled)

Related Candies

• /charly-coder:gh — Sibling GitHub CLI commonly paired with dev-tools
• /charly-coder:devops-tools — Sibling DevOps cloud CLI bundle in bootc images
• /charly-coder:build-toolchain — Sibling C/C++ toolchain in bootc image stacks

Related Boxes

• /charly-coder:debian-coder, /charly-coder:ubuntu-coder — canonical consumers of the bat→batcat symlink
• /charly-coder:fedora-coder, /charly-coder:arch-coder — consumers where the symlink plan step is a harmless no-op

Related Commands

• /charly-build:build — Build boxes that ship the dev-tools package set
• /charly-core:shell — Interactive shell to use bat/ripgrep/neovim/etc.
• /charly-check:check — exclude_distros: field reference for the fastfetch-binary test
• /charly-image:layer — authoring reference for distro-tolerant command: plan steps and exclude_distros:

When to Use This Skill

Use when the user asks about:

• Developer tools in containers
• CLI utilities (bat, ripgrep, fd-find, neovim, etc.)
• Podman tooling inside containers
• The dev-tools candy or its packages