Hey guys, I'm curious why this repo isn't part of all the other repos, like we have to use a different website. What's up with that? Will Universe be added? I'm just curious, got scared when my Arch packages weren't installing because of the keyring but I figured that out with this forum's help.
Thank you for your time.
i'ts "unofficial"
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Universe
No, universe is not officially supported. You can regard it as a "binary pkg mini AUR".
We do not encourage artix users to add arch repos, it's why the arch support is not official and thus in universe.
But often needed, because in the Artix Repos many Packages are not available, wich are available in the standard Arch Repos.
Like grub-customizer (wich isnt available in AUR either). Or chromium, missing too.
oi! this thread is whiny.
why do we have to use this? answer, you don't have to. if you choose to it's there, which is a far better option than it not being there. if it weren't there, that'd be something to consider whining about.
Sry, but first nobody is whining here, and it is totaly offtopic (and this post of course too ;) )
ok please delete my post. apparently i started whining..
Can we add a package that adds the Arch repos and universe somehow? It would really streamline an installation.
Hmmm, since you are going to have to run pacman when installing the package, you can't spawn another pacman process to do other stuff like sync with repos.
So the package itself then has to be a shell script that you run after installing the package.
I might write the shell script myself.
I'm new here, so I may be confused, but isn't this what the artix-archlinux-support (https://packages.artixlinux.org/details/artix-archlinux-support) package does?
If not, what does it do?
Yes, what I meant is writing a package to automate installing and adding the Arch repos by also installing said package.
Sure. But is a big risk for complications. Changing mirrors, somehow to check reliably if the arch repos arent already (for what reason ever) "enabled", etc. Sure, you could simply backup the old pacman.conf and deliver a new pacman.conf with that package. But you are not sure if the user already maked changes to the old pacman.conf etc pp.
Many many reasons why that would maybe not a nice idea.
Thats why this exist: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories
>Many many reasons why that would maybe not a nice idea.
That's why I made it a script: https://github.com/Lancia-Greggori/install-archlinux-support/blob/main/install-archlinux-support.sh
Fixes all the problems you mention
You can't really make it a package since the script has to call pacman to install the arch keyring, and since another pacman process is already installing the pkg it wouldn't work
We won't have any packages that auto adds arch support in our official repos.
So it not possible to install any arch suppport with our official iso, unless you manually grab and install the automation 3rd party package.
Bottom line, no arch support out of the box, artix is a distro on its own.
The universe repo has ungoogled-chromium, which is kept up-to-date.
Some popular packages - like grub-customizer - are available in the omniverse repo (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories#Omniverse).
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