Now install every AUR package. Bonus points for heuristically looking for cryptominers after it's done.
Is this a real problem?
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#22> Now is this useful? The short answer is no. The long answer is also no. I can think of exactly zero uses of this experiment (and I must be pretty crazy for doing it).
Well, at the very least it's a very computationally expensive test that managed to catch a few packaging bugs.
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#23This is very nicely done.
From the weird idea (why would that be interesting) to optimal solutions, np hard, disk issues and then an interesting result.
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#24I didn't really understand the fun of using Arch until I watched a few episodes of the "monthly Arch install" on YouTube.
It is very useful seeing how the "pros" do things, which looks substantially easier than when I try to install Arch and end up with a mess only slightly better than in this article ;)
Edit: the channels name is "EF - Linux made simple".
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#25> Now is this useful? The short answer is no. The long answer is also no. I can think of exactly zero uses of this experiment (and I must be pretty crazy for doing it). Well, at the very least it's a very computationally expensive test that managed to catch a few packaging bugs.
Which is definitely the reason to do it. Probably fleshes out most of the cornercases possible to experience. Further, HDD sizes are huge so just calling the whole enchilada install a standard install class makes a kind of sense. Only need to worry about picking and choosing until the whole enchilada becomes small enough to not be worth the decision process to minimize.
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#26https://archive.is/lQHf0 Site was barely loading for me, here is a mirror.
ta180m.exozy.me seem to hosted on a homelab as its being served from a spectrum IP address. and its seems only the IPv6 is down. Accessing the IPv4 address gives a nginx login prompt.
Will be interesting to read about the incident if the author is here.
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#27Fun stuff.
Reminds me of one former coworker, which didn't like me introducing FreeBSD. So he started installing all ports packages.. only to say the following morning: Look it's broken! ( disk was obviously full and this plot was irrational to people with some common sense ).
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#28Now install every AUR package. Bonus points for heuristically looking for cryptominers after it's done.
Better yet! Test the different tools for installing AUR. By installing all of them with each! Also, how much time do you have? Going to bet, it won't take too long before something breaks. Most of the AUR admins do a great job, however dependence issues can happen and compound quickly.
I know AUR package managers are bad juju. Still it sounds fun.
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#30IIRC 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.
It is a lot more fun trying to see how many you can uninstall before it really breaks and how. Well mainly tried on Ubuntu. Best done from a separate TTY and watch the main X user window.