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request for grouping init scripts

Hi, Artix have support for multiple init systems and there are scripts for many programs for each init system which are not grouped. Many users don't know about those init scripts and sometimes experienced ones also forget about them to download. So it would be nice if you group the init scripts with programs . like for example : you can group it like usbguard-openrc. which will download the init script and the program as well. or you can also group all so when the user for example wants to download usbguard or any other program then the pacman should ask which init script to download. just like when downloading base-devel pacman asks for the other packages as well. It's just an idea and the rest is up to you.

Re: request for grouping init scripts

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I think that outright downloading them is a bad idea. Pacman could print a message that "if you want to get an init script, please download *package*-openrc"
 

Re: request for grouping init scripts

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Many users don't know about those init scripts and sometimes experienced ones also forget about them to download.
They need to learn. And others can't be that experienced if they omit to look to see if there is a suitable service file. It's as simple as doing a pacman search and adding '-YOURINIT' to the packages name.

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like for example : you can group it like usbguard-openrc. which will download the init script and the program as well.
usbguard-openrc depends on usbguard so this already happens.
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you can also group all so when the user for example wants to download usbguard or any other program then the pacman should ask which init script to download. just like when downloading base-devel pacman asks for the other packages as well. It's just an idea and the rest is up to you.
I imagine that would involve a lot of work. And maintenance. It's not a terrible idea though.