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Re: Arch Packages You Might Want to Install

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Post by nick__m »

bscphil wrote: post #18
nick__m wrote: post #3

pulseaudio should be replace pipewire and sudo by doas I would also add: - htop - mc - fish (or zsh) - yay (from aur)

How do you fully replace sudo with doas on Arch? A bunch of packages depend on sudo, including glibc, and it's not obvious to me that they don't depend on the specific /usr/bin/sudo command being available.

sudo is an optional dependency for a lot of packages but it's a hard deps only for :

  - ceph
  - cloud-init
  - deepin-deamon
  - x2goserver
If you don't need one of the above packages, install and configure doas as described by the wiki, pay attention to that section : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Doas#Smooth_transition_sudo... . When doas work correctly remove sudo or if you needed one of the listed packages, changes it's permissions to 000.

Re: Arch Packages You Might Want to Install

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Post by nudin »

peakaboo wrote: post #15

This is very bad advice. The point of Arch is to install what you need because you have learned why you need it. Installing random packages because an Internet blog says you should? Many of these are specific to what choices you have made on your computer.

It explicitly states that that is not the intended use for it. If you use it like that it's your bad.

Re: Arch Packages You Might Want to Install

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Post by bscphil »

nick__m wrote: post #21
bscphil wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you fully replace sudo with doas on Arch? A bunch of packages depend on sudo, including glibc, and it's not obvious to me that they don't depend on the specific /usr/bin/sudo command being available.

sudo is an optional dependency for a lot of packages but it's a hard deps only for : - ceph - cloud-init - deepin-deamon - x2goserver If you don't need one of the above packages, install and configure doas as described by the wiki, pay attention to that section : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Doas#Smooth_transition_sudo... . When doas work correctly remove sudo or if you needed one of the listed packages, changes…

You're quite right. I had run `pactree sudo`, forgetting that the correct command was `pactree -r sudo`.

Re: Arch Packages You Might Want to Install

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Post by 3np »

branon wrote: post #4

Screw it, just pull in the entire default repo and call it a day. With how cheap disk space is now, I wonder how infeasible this would actually be. How much disk and bandwidth would this take for, say, Ubuntu, or Arch, or Arch plus the AUR? Once everything is installed, the package manager could handle incremental updates rather painlessly if you ran them often enough. Conflicting packages might pose a bit of an issu…

I think even with a performant machine, you'd struggle to keep up with the AUR - consider many -git packages that just track the tip of some git repo and may take arbitrary time to build.

The base repos would at least be theoretically possible, but I think the only way it would be useful would be to uncover undocumented conflicts...

Re: Arch Packages You Might Want to Install

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Post by 3np »

authed wrote: post #2

youtube-dl should probably be replaced with yt-dlp.. but I like Firefox, Thunderbird, vlc, git, keepassxc... I don't think that I ever needed to install sudo though... you are missing a lot of gems, like Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, nmap, mutt, irssi, gparted, jedit, go, unrar, wireguard-tools, syncthing, obs-studio, audacity... the command below appears to list packages installed by the user: comm -23 source: https://un…

s/audacity/tenacity/

s/mutt/neomutt/

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