[goosedragons]

You can visualize dependencies as a graph with Guix out of the box [1]. While you can't easily setup "user dependencies" (except by editing the package definition) you can create profiles that install packages from a manifest file so you could have a profile with a manifest with xwayland and sway and then simply remove the profile if not needed. Guix already specifies runtime/dev dependencies.

[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-graph...

[thrwawy283]

That is definitely close to what I'm thinking of. What I was trying to say is our 1st reach should be for a graph editor. Behind the scenes it may break down to a command line program, but what you'd deal with all the time is the graph editor that you can mouse around and zoom in/out on, and add/remove edges between nodes/packages. That would be a neat experience.