Installing Every Arch Package

steerablesafe wrote: post #3

If you only install supposedly non-conflicting packages, and there are conflicting file locations, isn't that a packaging bug?

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Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by metahost » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 10:19 AM UTC

ShortStretto wrote: post #2

https://archive.is/lQHf0 Site was barely loading for me, here is a mirror.

The screenshots are not mirrored. :(

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by ginko » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 10:19 AM UTC

steerablesafe wrote: post #3

If you only install supposedly non-conflicting packages, and there are conflicting file locations, isn't that a packaging bug?

Sounds like it, yeah.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by dpwm » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

steerablesafe wrote: post #3

If you only install supposedly non-conflicting packages, and there are conflicting file locations, isn't that a packaging bug?

Not if you disable file conflict checking, as the author did.

> As we used a lot of unsafe hacks (disabling dependency and file conflict checking, for instance) to get this to actually work, I wouldn’t recommend using this system for anything other than proving it’s possible.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by jackosdev » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 10:33 AM UTC

ginko wrote: post #6

steerablesafe wrote: post #3

If you only install supposedly non-conflicting packages, and there are conflicting file locations, isn't that a packaging bug?

Sounds like it, yeah.

Some packages give you options for different packages that conflict. E.g. if you install i3 it will let you choose between standard i3, i3-gaps or 5 others. You can only have one installed at a time.

I've been using Pacman for years never had a single problem with conflicts or anything else.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by iqanq » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 10:33 AM UTC

ShortStretto wrote: post #2

https://archive.is/lQHf0 Site was barely loading for me, here is a mirror.

They have cloned cloudflare's captcha page. How shady.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by faho » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 10:33 AM UTC

steerablesafe wrote: post #3

If you only install supposedly non-conflicting packages, and there are conflicting file locations, isn't that a packaging bug?

Yes, and they did say they were going to file bugs:

> Investigate the file conflicts and file some Arch Linux bugs.

with a link to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73574, which is indeed a bug in the packaging script (it fails to consider python version 3.10 because it only globs 3.?).