Nine tasks, each with the verification that has to pass before the next one
starts. The ordering is dictated by risk rather than convenience: the archive
branch first so the 2021 state is never at stake, beastix before the two remote
machines because it is the source, and the Mac last because it is the only
platform whose PATH problem cannot be reproduced locally.
Every task verifies against an isolated ZDOTDIR before the live .zshrc is
touched, and the two remote rollouts require a second SSH session to stay open.
A broken shell config on shron means no remote login on a production mail
server, so the role file is written before the checkout, not after - otherwise
the default applies and the server comes up on the desktop profile.
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The repository stopped matching reality in April 2021. It describes an i3/sway
desktop that no longer exists - the display menu drives xrandr outputs the
machine does not have - while .zshrc alone drifted by 360 lines. Checking out
master would overwrite five years of work rather than update anything.
Three machines, no shared base: beastix (Arch/KDE), shron (Arch, headless), a
Mac. Common .zshrc lines between all three: four.
Keeps the existing bare-repo-and-alias method. The role is resolved when the
shell starts, not when files are deployed, so no deployment tooling is needed
at all; every machine carries every file and sources one of them.
Package lists are derived from usage data - shell history, the KDE activity
database, autostart, flatpak - because each signal alone has a blind spot and
pacman -Qqe lists 512 packages including years of experiments. That yields 62.
Plain files and plain lists throughout, so a later move to home-manager stays
cheap.
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