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where in calamares can I add my packages to install and remove

Guys, please tell me in which calamares configuration file can I add my packages for installation and remove unnecessary ones?

Re: where in calamares can I add my packages to install and remove

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it would be great if Artix had a graphical installer with calamares base system, because those people who install the system from the command line, they can do it in any distribution in the terminal, or at least calamares had the ability to select the necessary packages
 

Re: where in calamares can I add my packages to install and remove

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Guys, please tell me in which calamares configuration file can I add my packages for installation and remove unnecessary ones?
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/InstallationUsingBuildiso
I don't think Calamares itself can do extra packages apart from what the built iso provides.

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it would be great if Artix had a graphical installer with calamares base system
I assume you mean in the -base ISO's which don't have any desktop.
Well, there is this logical connection between what is gui and what is non gui, you can include xorg+minimal desktop+calamares in your modified base iso, of course, but it would not make too much sense in the official release.

To ship calamares gui in a base release would have 3 problems:
- not many distros do it cause a minimal/barebones desktop loading a single program looks too windows-ish;
- the other possibly helpful gui programs would miss so you will then have to open a terminal/switch to tty for it, like for fdisk, and will get annoying
- from what I understand in Artix's tooling it would not be easy for the devs to maintain (it will need to have a boot-time option to select). Of course a dev will know better than me so i will leave the thread open. :-)

LE: easiest way just install a desktop ISO then remove the entire desktop, problem solved.