Support for pseudo packages

[medoni]

is there any support for pseudo packages? For example:

// my-dev-env.json
{
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "depends": ["git", "vim", "wget"]
}

if i install this, i got

'my-dev-env' doesn't support 64bit architecture!

[rasa]

Not currently, as the URL field is required.

[excitoon]

Just as a workaround, I've just released an empty zip (22 bytes): https://github.com/excitoon/empty/releases/download/empty-1.0.7/empty-1.0.7.zip

[Harakku]

Any live url seems to work at least currently. I went with "url": "https://example.com".

[boskoop]

Is there any work going on with this? It is open since over 6 years and there were multiple duplicates for this enhancement.

It probably would help to specify what the desired design would be (make url optional, add a "metapackage" property, ..) so people could supply PRs.

Just for documentation, the workaround with an example url currently creates a WARN log:

WARN  Warning: No hash in manifest. SHA256 for '<sample-url>' is:
    <hash of GET to sample-url>