Feature request: add support for auto installing cli and system tools via Arkadefile about arkade HOT 2 OPEN

I'm not clear on what this would provide above and beyond a set of individual calls to arkade, which, if scripted, would arguably be more accessible to a user than mastering yet another yaml file. I have the faasd install script in mind a little here where an installation (dependency) order is in effect. I see dependencies mentioned but no description on how these would be handled.

If this does move forward then type should be in terms of tool and app rather than the CLI verbiage.

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Since arkade tools are mostly static binaries there is no need for actual dependencies, however the order of the tools should decide this like in the case of brewfiles. (I have a brew mas and immidetly after that a mas install <app id> and it works just fine.)

I accept your opinion, however I find the comparison between a yaml array with an object of 4 fields (3 of them is optional) and writing shell scripts with the reason being "mastering yet another yaml file" is a bit of a stretch.
If you ever wrote at least 1 shell script to do some part of this proposal (which I assume both you, Alex and I did) then I think this feature could be implemented to eliminate this kind of glue code.

Imho this is way more readable than using shell scripts:

- name: kubectl
- name: gh
- name: caddy

In the description there is a command for generating this kind of yamls/jsons too, to make it simpler.

Also it just doesn't make sense to install apps with this feature, because there will be almost no difference between this function or using helm.

This feature meant to "compete" in a sense with the above linked brew bundle.

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