Automatic backup list or global manifest of installed packages, buckets, etc.

[kpc2]

Hi, just recently my computer crashed and partition table got corrupted and I had to reinstall Windows and all my apps, since I was unable to restore the partition table. This time around I'm performing more rigorous automatic backups to the cloud. This got me thinking that It would be really nice if scoop had a global manifest file that could be easily backed up without having to include the entire scoop folder. I know that there's the scoop export and import commands but I don't want to run scoop export > some-file.json every single time I add, remove, and update apps and buckets. It would be so much nicer if scoop did this for me instead.

An example of this is how NPM packages work. Instead of tracking node_modules, where all the packages are stored, all I have to do track is package.json and a lock file, which is all I need to easily reinstall my packages.

This would also be beneficial to users who use git to backup all their configuration files in their home folder (e.g. dotfiles).