Updated minimum package lists for Cinnamon, Cutefish, Deepin, GNOME, I3, KDE Plasma, LXQt, Sway, GPU drivers and deleted Wayfire desktop profile #3069

Metelar · 2025-01-03T16:34:47Z

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svartkanin · 2025-01-11T04:47:14Z

archinstall/lib/hardware.py

@@ -67,7 +61,7 @@ class GfxDriver(Enum):
 	AmdOpenSource = 'AMD / ATI (open-source)'
 	IntelOpenSource = 'Intel (open-source)'
 	NvidiaOpenKernel = 'Nvidia (open kernel module for newer GPUs, Turing+)'
-	NvidiaOpenSource = 'Nvidia (open-source nouveau driver)'
+	NvidiaOpenSource = 'Nvidia (open-source Nouveau driver)'


These are breaking changes and it'd be better (even it's not perfect) to maybe leave them as they are. Any existing config will not be parsed correctly anymore as the naming won't match

I never thought that such a small change could break everything.
I apologize for my stupidity )

svartkanin · 2025-01-11T04:48:00Z

archinstall/lib/hardware.py

@@ -44,19 +44,13 @@ def get_ucode(self) -> Path | None:


 class GfxPackage(Enum):
-	Dkms = 'dkms'


Could you share why these packages were removed and what the reasoning is?

dkms is a dependency of the nvidia-dkms and nvidia-open-dkms packages

svartkanin · 2025-01-11T04:52:39Z

@Metelar could you provide some description of the packages and why they would be relevant and good to have for a minimal installation. Some of them seem subjective such as file-roller or spectacle.

Metelar · 2025-01-11T17:19:20Z

@Metelar could you provide some description of the packages and why they would be relevant and good to have for a minimal installation. Some of them seem subjective such as file-roller or spectacle.

I didn’t know that GNOME Files had a built-in archiver.
The "spectacle" package seems necessary to me for users, but so be it, I'll remove it

svartkanin · 2025-01-12T00:34:01Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/sway.py

-			"swayidle",
-			"waybar",
-			"dmenu",
+			"wmenu",


is this deprecated https://github.com/LinArcX/wmenu ?

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/wmenu/

svartkanin · 2025-01-12T00:35:47Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/sway.py

 			"foot",
-			"xorg-xwayland"
+			"xorg-xwayland",
+			"xdg-desktop-portal-gtk",


is this essential? Seems to me more of an optional thing to work with things like Flatpak https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

svartkanin · 2025-01-12T00:44:31Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/plasma.py

 			"ark",
-			"plasma-workspace"
+			"bluedevil",
+			"breeze-gtk",


breeze-gtk nice to have for theme, not essential

plasma-nm may not be wanted if the users did not setup any networking in the settings

plasma-pa also depends on the configuration of the audio server installed and may not be wanted

sddm-kcm this should probably only be installed if SDDM was choosen as the greeter

Metelar · 2025-01-12T10:30:30Z

is this essential? Seems to me more of an optional thing to work with things like Flatpak https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

breeze-gtk nice to have for theme, not essential
plasma-nm may not be wanted if the users did not setup any networking in the settings
plasma-pa also depends on the configuration of the audio server installed and may not be wanted
sddm-kcm this should probably only be installed if SDDM was choosen as the greeter

OK, I removed these and also the bluedevil and kde-gtk-config packages

Metelar · 2025-01-12T10:34:55Z

Maybe it's time to merge this commit? )

Wayfire is currently only available in AUR )

svartkanin · 2025-01-14T03:30:08Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/cinnamon.py

-			"xdg-user-dirs-gtk"
+			'cinnamon',
+			'gvfs-mtp',
+			'gnome-console'


What was wrong with all the other packages? It would be great if you could actually provide references and a description for all these changes

svartkanin · 2025-01-14T03:34:08Z

@Metelar pushing new changes to this PR makes it more difficult to verify and review. There is no description of any of these changes nor reasoning for the packges added/removed, that doesn't mean it's bad changes but simply it's all unknowns that need to be verified carefully. These profiles are generally a sensitive topic among users with a lot of subjective opinions so the rules should be "Only install minimum packages to provide all basic working functionality for the profile"

I need to verify all the GFX driver changes as there were quite a few issues in the past.

svartkanin · 2025-01-14T03:39:10Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/deepin.py

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
 	def packages(self) -> list[str]:
 		return [
 			"deepin",
-			"deepin-terminal",
-			"deepin-editor"
+			"deepin-terminal"


According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Deepin_Desktop_Environment

Install deepin and deepin-kwin for the basic components for a minimal desktop interface. Optionally, also install deepin-extra for some extra applications for a more complete desktop environment.

svartkanin · 2025-01-14T03:42:35Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/gnome.py

@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
 	@override
 	def packages(self) -> list[str]:
 		return [
-			'gnome',
-			'gnome-tweaks'
+			'gnome-shell',


We could potentially just install the gnome group https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/gnome/ as recommneded https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME

Yes, but there are many unnecessary packages in this group.

The 'gnome-shell' package is enough to run GNOME, but I also added a system settings app (gnome-control-center), a terminal emulator (gnome-console), a file manager (nautilus) and an additional GVFS package to transfer files on the MTP protocol [1]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Media_Transfer_Protocol)

svartkanin · 2025-01-14T03:44:16Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/i3.py

@@ -12,14 +12,9 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
 	@override
 	def packages(self) -> list[str]:
 		return [
+			'alacritty',


Maybe also here settling with the group https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/i3/ would be good

Yes, but there are many unnecessary packages in this group.

svartkanin · 2025-01-14T03:46:34Z

archinstall/default_profiles/desktops/wayfire.py

-from archinstall.default_profiles.xorg import XorgProfile
-
-
-class WayfireProfile(XorgProfile):


Why was this deleted?

Wayfire is currently not available in the official Arch Linux repositories, the author of the script has not implemented installation of this package from AUR

Metelar · 2025-01-15T21:22:21Z

I need to verify all the GFX driver changes as there were quite a few issues in the past.

I don’t have an Nvidia video card to test the changes, but I think that by replacing the packages, the problems with Nvidia will not get any bigger or smaller

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		@@ -44,19 +44,13 @@ def get_ucode(self) -> Path \| None:


		class GfxPackage(Enum):
		Dkms = 'dkms'

		from archinstall.default_profiles.xorg import XorgProfile


		class WayfireProfile(XorgProfile):

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