Restriction

aqua has some restrictions.

aqua doesn't support running any external commands to install tools

aqua's install process is very simple.

1. Download tool
2. Unarchive tool in $AQUA_ROOT_DIR

aqua doesn't support running external commands to install tools, though there are some exceptions such as cosign, slsa-verifier, minisign, go, and cargo. So aqua can't support tools requiring to run external commands.

This is not necessarily a draw back.

https://github.com/aquaproj/aqua-registry/issues/987#issuecomment-1104422712

You may think it's inconvenient, but we think this design is important to keep aqua simple, secure, less dependency, and maintainable.

aqua doesn't need any dependency. aqua doesn't run external commands. aqua doesn't change files outside install directory.

So the trouble shooting is relatively easy. Otherwise, user support would be very hard.