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Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by vifon »

jackosdev wrote: post #8
ginko wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, and they should be marked as conflicting, as OP suggested.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by steerablesafe »

faho wrote: post #10
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.?).

Ah, I missed that.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by Tildey »

iqanq wrote: post #9
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.

I think what you’re referring to is a known issue with how their server handles cloudflares 1.1.1.1 DNS, not them intentionally being shady.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by blahgeek »

IIRC archlinux is pretty conservative at enabling services by default after installing, so installing every package should not take too much system resource aside from disk space.

I’m curious about doing the same thing in Ubuntu

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by __del__ »

jackosdev wrote: post #8
ginko wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

according to the wiki[1], packages which are non-cohabiting alternatives should use both "provides" and "conflicts" (and it's sufficient to list the original package name in conflicts, rather than all of the conflicting alternatives).

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#Package_relations

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by iqanq »

Tildey wrote: post #13
iqanq wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think what you’re referring to is a known issue with how their server handles cloudflares 1.1.1.1 DNS, not them intentionally being shady.

No, what I am referring to is that they show me a captcha page that they have ripped off from cloudflare.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by no_time »

RealStickman_ wrote: post #17
no_time wrote: post #14

Now install every AUR package. Bonus points for heuristically looking for cryptominers after it's done.

What would be the order of preference for conflicting packages (compiling, binary, git)?

I'd start with binary packages in the order of ascending popularity

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=bin&SB=p&SO...

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by __del__ »

blahgeek wrote: post #15

IIRC archlinux is pretty conservative at enabling services by default after installing, so installing every package should not take too much system resource aside from disk space. I’m curious about doing the same thing in Ubuntu

i believe it's a rite of passage for any new linux user on a dpkg-based linux distribution to install synaptic and with it every possible package.
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