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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 4 months ago

Given that I want to switch back to ext4, i need to also reinstall.

I went through manually installed RPM packages, narrowed the list down to 41 most critical, and here’s what I ended up with:

aerc bat bison ccache clang cmake expect fatcat flex fzf gcc github-cli gh git gnupg hatch hyperfine irssi mc mediainfo meson mmv msmtp ncdu neovim openssl pam-u2f pass patch pwgen qemu ranger rclone ripgrep sha3sum socat strace tealdeer w3m zig zola zoxide zsh

These are mapped to Arch Linux package names. I’ll install that distribution because I can just pass that list to archinstall be back in online maybe about ~2h :-)

It goes like this:

  1. Install Arch Linux to VM and use archinstall for this.
  2. Export json.
  3. [Backup json too.]
  4. On bare metal boot from stick and pass that json to the installer and shit will just happen!

Now that I anyway have to reinstall I found out about how this works and it plain just make sense to me…

EDIT: actually 42 packages, gnupg was missing, well anyway…

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ikkeT@mementomori.social

Ilkka Tengvall

Reply to @jarkko

@jarkko you didn't consider the new image based distros where you can have containers for different programming targerts? Like SilverBlue. Then your coding container would have the packace list in distrobox config.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @ikkeT@mementomori.social
@ikkeT not really, i update to get ext4 back mainly. arch makes sense because it is not a product so no big "drop support". that's exactly why I decided to change the distribution.
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@ikkeT this whole immutability is overrated imho. get in the context of data center but not in the context of my lab desktop :-)

modern example of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
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