A pass over the install scripts, dev-tools commands, and Hyprland Lua
files that I had stuffed with explain-everything preambles. Most of
those rationales (which files ship where, why hyprctl setenv doesn't
suffice, etc.) belong in commit messages or PR descriptions, not in
code people have to read forever. Kept the few comments that document
genuinely non-obvious behaviour: the keybind-env reason for hl.env in
envs.lua, why the runtime PAM seds stay scripted in
increase-lockout-limit, the chroot/--now distinction in chroot.sh, and
the dev-pkg-test split-install reason.
Two related fixes for installing package builds onto a system that has
the legacy script-installed Omarchy files already in place:
bin/omarchy-dev-pkg-test: split makepkg -s (build) from sudo pacman -U
(install) so we can pass --overwrite='*' to pacman. makepkg -i forwards
a fixed flag set to pacman and doesn't expose --overwrite, so dev pkg
tests on an existing script-install fail on every conflicting file
(plymouth themes, /etc drop-ins, sudoers). --overwrite='*' is correct
for the dev use case: the build IS the new authoritative state.
bin/omarchy-update-system-pkgs: add /usr/share/plymouth/themes/omarchy/*
to the transition --overwrite list. The old install/login/plymouth.sh
cp -r'd the theme files into that directory, so existing installs
conflict on the omarchy-settings package's plymouth payload.
The four dev-tools commands that complete the developer-ergonomics
story for the package refactor:
- omarchy-dev-link <path>: writes /etc/omarchy.conf so OMARCHY_PATH
resolves to <path> in all new shells, the Hyprland session env, and
systemd --user. Updates the live session via hyprctl setenv +
systemctl --user import-environment, restarts omarchy-shell, and
reloads Hyprland so the changes are visible immediately. Affects
every tree resolved via $OMARCHY_PATH: bin/, default/, shell/,
themes/, applications/, config/.
- omarchy-dev-unlink: removes /etc/omarchy.conf and reverses the live
session updates back to /usr/share/omarchy.
- omarchy-dev-status: reports current dev-link state (configured path,
current shell, hyprland session env).
- omarchy-dev-pkg-test [pkg] [checkout]: builds and installs a package
from the checkout via OMARCHY_SRC + makepkg -si --skipchecksums.
Used for changes that land at fixed system paths (/etc/, /usr/lib/,
udev rule bodies, plymouth themes, /etc/skel) that dev-link can't
shadow. The built package's pkgver is tagged 'dev.<short-sha>[.dirty]'
so 'pacman -Q' makes its source obvious. Defaults: package
omarchy-settings, checkout ~/Work/omarchy/omarchy-installer,
PKGBUILDs read from ~/Work/omarchy/omarchy-pkgs/pkgbuilds/.
All four ship via omarchy-dev-tools (existing PKGBUILD wildcard).
Verified package build picks them up at /usr/bin/omarchy-dev-*.
Ryan Hughes