After watching Allan's talk at SINFO, I remembered one big thing, when he mentioned certain projects moving away of shipping configuration files and preinstalling them directly to /etc and instead install the defaults to /usr/ and overriding them in a similar fashion to how systemd does it.
So I asked about this in #archlinux-pacman and this bug report was
pointed out to me [1].
Here are 2 ideas, tell me what you think.
1)
Move everything to /usr/lib/pacman/
/usr/lib/pacman/gnupg/
/usr/lib/pacman/hooks/ (for later)
/usr/lib/pacman/repos.d
I am not sure how to order repos with this way, possibly with a priority
directive or with just a ##-testing or whatever like modular
directories. Or possibly use something like Before=community in
community-testing so that it is checked before community... etc
Leave pacman.conf and makepkg.conf in /etc but move them to
/etc/pacman/ and remove repos from pacman.conf . Basically making it
similar to how systemd's config files are setup
2)
Move everything to /usr/lib/pacman , and make EVERYTHING possible to
be split out.
/usr/lib/pacman
conf1.conf
options stuff
...
and config2.conf
more options stuff
...
community.repo
...
this would depend on .
Also, using the Before=community whenever a [repo] is defined
3) Some middle ground.
In the end, I like seeing up with repo stuff looking like this
whether you choose to put them in seperate files or not, making it so
that repos can be organized besides just straight down the file.
[Repo]
Name=core
Before=extra community
SigLevel=PackageRequired
Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[Repo]
Name=testing
Before=core
Requires=core
SigLevel=PackageRequired
Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[Repo]
Name=allanbrokeit
Before=core
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://allanmcrae.com/$repo/$arch
etc
[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17690
Thanks,
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Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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