Comment by Daegalus

You can literally use Brew for a lot of things. Linux brew is pretty good these days.

If you want this makefile way, use Justfiles,which are modernized Makefiles so you dont have 30 years of cruft and such being injected into it.

But also at the end of the day, Mise exists and is directly targetted for this.

I personally use Brew bundle files + Dotter for my home/tools management. Brew bundles also support Flatpaks these days and i can install those too.