feat: dinit or die

why the FUCK did i think making an init selector was a good idea
artix themselves dont even ship services in their online installer
they just give you a bare system and say "figure it out" and
it WORKS because people can just install their init of choice
afterwards. but nooooo i had to be clever and build a whole
netinstall-add monstrosity with openrc/runit/s6 service groups
that broke constantly because basestrap --overwrite is a lie
and init packages conflict with each other and sddm-openrc +
lightdm-openrc both Provide: init-displaymanager and pacman
just goes 🖕 during install.

so anyway. dinit only now. you want something else? read
changing-init.md, i literally copied the artix wiki tutorial.
i am not maintaining four init service groups in netinstall.yaml
for the rest of my life. this is my villain origin story.

actual changes:
- ripped out offline calamares mode (was never truly offline)
- ripped out packagechooser.conf (good fucking riddance)
- added packagechooser_dm.conf so you can at least pick your DM
- added BYODE offline installer (bare system + btrfs + snapper,
  no DE, you pacman -Sy plasma-meta yourself)
- added yay + snapper + btrfs-progs to rootfs
- shoved Init Services + DM groups into netinstall.yaml (dinit
  only, obviously)
- updated every markdown file that mentioned another init like
  they were cursed (they were)
- wrote changing-init.md so i can just paste the link next time
  someone asks
- X-KDE-IsAdminApplication=true so KDE stops acting like
  calamares is a virus (its not, its just desperate)
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2026-07-16 21:55:05 +02:00
parent 8661722ee7
commit 442980a7af
45 changed files with 602 additions and 813 deletions
@@ -55,6 +55,27 @@
- intel-ucode
- amd-ucode
- name: "Init Services"
description: "Essential dinit services"
selected: true
critical: true
immutable: true
packages:
- dinit
- dbus-dinit
- networkmanager-dinit
- elogind-dinit
- cups-dinit
- avahi-dinit
- bluez-dinit
- cronie-dinit
- openssh-dinit
- alsa-utils-dinit
- acpid-dinit
- dhcpcd-dinit
- syslog-ng-dinit
- power-profiles-daemon-dinit
- name: "Utilities"
description: "System Utilities"
selected: true
@@ -79,7 +100,7 @@
subgroups:
- name: "Plasma"
description: "KDE Plasma Desktop"
selected: true
selected: false
packages:
- antergos-plasma-theme
- antergos-next-desktop-settings
@@ -249,6 +270,11 @@
packages:
- hyprland
- xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland
- name: "COSMIC"
description: "COSMIC Desktop (Rust/Wayland — select greetd as DM)"
selected: false
packages:
- cosmic
- name: "SDDM"
description: "SDDM display manager"