The lists are derived rather than typed. beastix has 512 explicit packages -
years of experiments among them - so taking that as "what this machine needs"
would be meaningless. curate.sh combines four usage signals, each of which
alone has a blind spot: shell history sees no GUI application, KDE's activity
database sees no chat client, autostart sees only what starts by itself, and
flatpak entries never appear in pacman -Qqe at all. That reduces 512 to 62.
The split follows the data: what beastix and shron both have becomes the base,
the rest of beastix becomes desktop, shron's own becomes server.
base-devel is one entry in the server list rather than its 26 members. It
stopped being a package group in 2022 - "pacman -Sg base-devel" now fails
outright - and is a meta package today. base, grub and linux-lts are dropped
entirely; they arrive with the operating system.
packages.sh never removes anything. Extras are reported and left alone, for
the same reason the BookStack playbook refuses to: on a server, individual
packages carry mail and web services. It avoids process substitution because
/bin/sh is dash on Debian and a POSIX-mode bash on macOS, and this has to run
on both.
Verified on beastix: 62 wanted, 0 missing, 450 extra reported and untouched;
install is a no-op.
The server list is a snapshot from 2026-08-06 and wants re-reading when shron
is reachable again - its login session has since expired.
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master still carried the 2021 tree. Task 6 does a checkout over $HOME, so nine
of those files would have overwritten the current configuration rather than
updated it - i3, sway, dunst, nvim, vim and tmux, all diverged by years. The
plan had no step for this; the design warned about it and then nothing
implemented the warning.
The nine are now taken from the live machine verbatim, and the 31 files with no
counterpart there are dropped. Everything remains on archive/2021-i3-sway.
README.md and .scripts/install.sh are kept despite having no live counterpart:
the first documents the repository and the second is what ls.shron.de/dotconf
serves, so deleting it would break that link.
Verified byte-identical to the live files afterwards, which is the point - a
checkout on this machine must change nothing.
KDE has been in daily use for a while with nothing backing it up. Eighteen rc
files and the nine autostart entries are added: window rules and shortcuts,
notification behaviour, the lock screen, and the panel layout in
plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. That last one is rewritten by
plasmashell whenever anything moves, so it will produce churn - kept anyway,
since a lost panel layout is the most tedious thing here to rebuild by hand.
.config/kdeconnect/ is excluded rather than added. It holds the device
certificate and its private key, and is pairing state rather than
configuration - the only place under .config that carries a secret.
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