illogical-impulse/dist-arch

Install scripts for Arch Linux

Old Dependency Installation Method

The old deps install method mainly involved ./scriptdata/dependencies.conf (which has been removed now).

There was also a checkdeps.sh:

• It checks the existence of pkgs listed in ./scriptdata/dependencies.conf.
• It somehow fixes the problem caused by yay.

Current Dependency Installation

Local PKGBUILDs under ./dist-arch/ are used to install dependencies.

The mechanism is introduced by Makrennel in PR#570.

Why is this awesome?

• It makes it possible to control version since some packages may involve breaking changes from time to time.
• It makes the dependency trackable for package manager, so that you always know why you have installed some package.
• As a result, it enables a workable uninstall.sh script.

The PKGBUILDs contains two forms of dependencies:

• Package name written in dependencies, like a "meta" package.
• Normal PKGBUILD content to build dependencies, e.g. AGS, which is often for version controlling.