c-ludenberg
442980a7af
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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title, layout, parent, nav_order
| title | layout | parent | nav_order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Overlay | default | Overlays | 2 |
Live Overlay
Files in iso-profiles/antergos/live-overlay/ exist only in the live environment — they are not present after installation.
Contents
live-overlay/
├── etc/
│ ├── calamares/
│ │ └── settings.conf # Replaced at runtime by online config
│ ├── calamares-online/
│ │ ├── settings.conf # Online install config (packagechooser)
│ │ └── modules/
│ │ ├── packagechooser_dm.conf # Display manager selector
│ │ ├── initcpiocfg.conf
│ │ └── ...
│ └── sddm.conf.d/
│ └── kde_settings.conf # SDDM autologin + Wayland session
└── usr/
└── share/
└── applications/
├── calamares.desktop # Branded launcher
└── calamares-config-switcher.desktop # Hidden (NoDisplay=true)
Key files
etc/calamares/settings.conf
Placeholder — replaced at runtime by calamares-next.sh which copies the online settings file.
etc/calamares-online/settings.conf
One packagechooser instance for DM selection (packagechooser@dm) using netinstall-select.
Offline config (archived)
The offline install mode was removed in v2026.07.16 — it was never truly offline (all DE packages were still downloaded via basestrap). The configs are preserved at iso-profiles/antergos/calamares-offline/ for reference.
etc/calamares/modules/basestrap.conf
Controls package installation during bootstrapping. The operations list includes packages that must be installed with --overwrite. This is where antergos-release is listed to ensure it overwrites /usr/lib/os-release from the filesystem package.
usr/share/applications/calamares-config-switcher.desktop
Has NoDisplay=true to hide it from the app menu. The upstream Artix "Install Artix Linux" entry is suppressed this way while keeping the binary available.