What Is a Chocolatey Package?
Chocolatey Is a Software Management Solution Unlike Anything Else You've Ever Experienced on Windows. Chocolatey Brings the Concepts of True Package Management...
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Subsequently, one may also ask, what are chocolatey packages?
Chocolatey is a command line application installer for Windows based on a developer-centric package manager called NuGet. Unlike manual installations, Chocolatey adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background requiring very little user interaction.
Likewise, is chocolatey safe? If you are an organization and you are using Chocolatey in the recommended way (internal repositories using packages that use internal resources only), Chocolatey is secure and reliable. Using the community repository (https://chocolatey.org/packages) is only as secure as the packages that you are using.
Also to know is, do I need chocolatey?
Chocolatey is something you need if you've ever installed, upgraded, or removed software on Windows. It is an existing, proven, project that was started in 2011. For those familiar with *nix package managers, it is a binary package manager, sort of like yum or apt-get, but for Windows.
What can you install with chocolatey?
Chocolatey packages encapsulate everything required to manage a particular piece of software into one deployment artifact by wrapping installers, executables, zips, and/or scripts into a compiled package file. Package submissions go through a rigorous moderation review process, including automatic virus scanning.
