Suggestion for UEFI based installs

Dear all,
Going through the Beginners install guide, I realized that the partitioning section mentions that for UEFI based systems, a UEFI partition needs to be installed.
However, there's something I'd like to share. I hope it can be changed if required. I'd be happy to help.
1) The sequence of making the UEFI partition. Should it be made first (beginning), followed by other system partitions?
2) The UEFI section says that "boot" flag needs to be set for this partition, which is fine. However, the Install guide says that the root partition needs to be set "bootable". Is there any potential conflict?
3) When mounting the system partitions, the /boot/efi directory needs to be mounted to the UEFI system partition in order to install GRUB. This is mentioned in the GRUB UEFI install guide, not in the Beginners' Guide.
Last edited by hdhiman (2012-08-29 05:25:04)

1) It is common for it to be on the beginning of the drive, but it doesn't really matter. Boot flag is doing all the magic.
2) Root shouldn't be flaged bootable. Anyways, there is no way you are booting from anything on the drive but the EFI partition.
3) It should be there and you can add it yourself.

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I also saw this info on this site:
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A suggestion for handling optdepends.

[UPDATE]
I've rewritten this post to present the idea more clearly.
[/UPDATE]
I've submitted a feature request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12708
If you like this idea, please express your support there too.
The Current Situation
The pacman database contains a file named "depends" in each package's directory which specifies the package's depends in the following format:
%DEPENDS%
foo
bar
this
that
Pacman reads this file and creates an internal representation of this list for the package which it uses during the sync operation to handle dependencies. Each package may also list optional dependencies which provide further functionality for the package without being required to use the package. Let's take gimp as an example:
pacman -Si gimp
Depends On : gtk2>=2.14.4 lcms>=1.17 libxpm>=3.5.7 libwmf>=0.2.8.4 libxmu>=1.0.4 librsvg>=2.22.3 libmng>=1.0.10 dbus-glib>=0.76 libexif>=0.6.16 pygtk>=2.13.0 desktop-file-utils gegl>=0.0.22 curl
Optional Deps : gutenprint: for sophisticated printing only as gimp has built-in cups print support
libwebkit: for the help browser
poppler-glib: for pdf support
hal: for Linux input event controller module
alsa-lib: for MIDI event controller module
If you want to install libwebkit to use gimp's help browser, you have 2 choices:
pacman -S libwebkit
pacman -S --asdeps libwebkit
With the first choice, libwebkit will clutter the list of explicitly installed packages ("pacman -Qet"). With the second choice, libwebkit will be considered an orphan and will be listed in "pacman -Qdt", which not only means it clutters that list but it also means that you can no longer purge orphans with "pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt)".
In both cases, when you uninstall gimp, you must remember to uninstall libwebkit too, because pacman doesn't know that you installed it as a dependency for gimp.
This may not be a problem for one package, but it will once the number or optdepends you have installed increases.
My Suggestion
Create an optdepends database in /var/lib/pacman/optdepends/ that follows the same format as the current depends files:
%OPTDEPENDS%
foo
bar
this
that
Add a function to pacman to check if a package has an entry in the optdepends database.
During a sync operation, treat any optdepends specified in the optdepends database as if they had been specified in the depends file.
Add a "--getoptdeps" flag to pacman to enable interactive installation of optdepends for a given package that follows the same pattern as the current group installation dialogue.
Store the results of this dialogue in the optdepends database.
Let's take gimp as an example again. You know that gimp has an optdepend that you want, so you do this:
pacman -S --getoptdeps gimp
gimp package found, checking optdepends
:: gimp has the following optdepends:
gutenprint: for sophisticated printing only as gimp has built-in cups print support
libwebkit: for the help browser
poppler-glib: for pdf support
hal: for Linux input event controller module
alsa-lib: for MIDI event controller module
:: Install whole content? [y/N] n
:: Install gutenprint as optdepend for gimp? [y/N] n
:: Install libwebkit as optdepend for gimp? [y/N] y
:: Install poppler-glib as optdepend for gimp? [y/N] n
:: Install hal as optdepend for gimp? [y/N] n
:: Install alsa-lib as optdepend for gimp? [y/N] n
Retrieving libwebkit...
Libwebkit will now be handled exactly as if it were a true dependency of gimp. It is neither explicitly installed nor an orphan. It will get removed with gimp unless it's a depend or optdepend for another package.
/var/lib/pacman/optdepends/gimp/optdepends now looks like this:
%OPTDEPENDS%
libwebkit
The Benefits of This Method
Default pacman behavior remains unchanged.
Most of the code is already in place (depends file parser, package selection dialogue, dependency handling during sync operation)
The existing databases (local, sync) would not require any changes.
The only extra overhead would be checking if a package has an entry in the optdepends database.
Users can define their own optional dependencies by adding them to the optdepends database (manually or with provided tools)
This opens the doors for metapackages to replace groups.
About Metapackages
A metapackage is a package that contains nothing itself but organizes other packages. For an example of how these work on Arch, take a look at metapax.
Every package group could be converted to a metapackage if this suggestion were implemented. To understand the benefits of using metapackages instead of groups, we need to consider how groups currently work.
When you install gnome, this is what happens:
pacman -S gnome
gnome package not found, searching for group...
:: group gnome (including ignored packages):
epiphany gnome-applets gnome-backgrounds gnome-control-center gnome-desktop gnome-icon-theme gnome-media gnome-mime-data gnome-mount gnome-panel gnome-python gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-themes gnome2-user-docs libgail-gnome metacity nautilus notification-daemon yelp
:: Install whole content? [Y/n] n
:: Install epiphany from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-applets from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-backgrounds from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-control-center from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-desktop from group gnome? [Y/n] y
Most users will install all of the packages, others won't. In either case, once the packages are on your system, pacman has no concept of the gnome "group". Each package is effectively independent of the gnome group. If a new package is added to the gnome group, for example "gnome-somenewpackage", pacman will not install it during your next update. It won't even ask you about it or tell you that there is a new package. There have been questions on this forum from users wondering why new gnome packages weren't installed automatically. This applies to all groups... kde, xorg, xfce, etc.
If we instead replaced groups with metapackages, each package in the group would become an optdepend of the metapackage. With my suggestion, this would lead to exactly the same dialogue as above. Each package in a metapackage would remain optional just as packages in groups currently are. The advantage would be that if "gnome-somenewpackage" is added to the gnome metapackage, it would be possible to inform the user during an update and prompt for installation.
Here's the discussion on flyspray about groups vs metapackages: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8242
Notes on Metapackages
The only complicated parts of handling metapackages are the following:
If a package is a metapackage, it should be detected during installation and automatically jump to the optdepends dialogue in order for it to behave exactly as groups do.
During a metapackage update, there should be a way to inform the user of new optdepends, but this might be as simple as including an upgrade message in the package install file.
Last edited by Xyne (2009-01-13 16:20:52)

No, this wouldn't affect a packages "true" dependencies in any way.
Packages now have 2 types of dependencies, "depends" and "optdepends". "depends" are installed with the package and are required for the package to run. "optdepends" just display message during installation to the effect of "optional dependencies for this package: foo - for foo support, bar - for bar support, baz - for web access and printing". "gimp" is an example of a package with optional dependencies.
As it is right now, optional dependencies are nothing more than installation messages. If you decide to install optional dependencies for a given package, they are completely independent of the target package. Let me give a concrete example:
pacman -Si gimp
Depends On : gtk2>=2.14.4 lcms>=1.17 libxpm>=3.5.7 libwmf>=0.2.8.4 libxmu>=1.0.4 librsvg>=2.22.3 libmng>=1.0.10 dbus-glib>=0.76 libexif>=0.6.16 pygtk>=2.13.0 desktop-file-utils gegl>=0.0.22 curl
Optional Deps : gutenprint: for sophisticated printing only as gimp has built-in cups print support
libwebkit: for the help browser
poppler-glib: for pdf support
hal: for Linux input event controller module
Ok, I want to install gimp and I want libwebkit to be able to use gimp's help browser. I have 2 options right now:
Option 1:
pacman -S gimp libwebkit
libwebkit is now installed as an explicit package.
Option 2:
pacman -S gimp
pacman -S --asdeps libwebkit
libwebkit is now installed as a dependency.
With option 1, libwebkit clutters my list of explicitly installed packages (pacman -Qet). With option 2, it is considered an orphan by pacman and would be removed with an orphan purge ("pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qqdt)"). In both cases, if I remove gimp, libwebkit stays on my system even though I only want it for gimp. It will not be removed with "pacman -Rs gimp" because pacman has no idea that it has anything to do with gimp.
My suggestion therefore it to create a way for pacman to treat selected optdepends as depends. Given the gimp example, what this would mean for the user is that when the user runs "pacman -S gimp", it would present a dialogue as follows:
gimp has the following optional dependencies:
gutenprint: for sophisticated printing only as gimp has built-in cups print support
libwebkit: for the help browser
poppler-glib: for pdf support
hal: for Linux input event controller module
Would you like to install these optional dependencies? [y/N] y
Install all optional dependencies? [y/N] n
Install gutenprint? [y/N] n
Install libwebkit? [y/N] y
Install poppler-glib? [y/N] n
Install hal? [y/N] n
retrieving libwebkit...
libwebkit would now be treated as if it had been specified in gimp's depends array. When you uninstall gimp, it would be removed with gimp just as gimp's other dependencies.
There would also be tools to add optional dependencies to a package later (either with pacman or something else... I'll gladly contribute something to do this), so if you want to add gutenprint to gimp later, you could and then let pacman grab it as a dependency of gimp.
Again, this has nothing to do with "true" dependencies of packages. This is just a fix for the kludge now known as "optdepends".
First, let's look at what happens when you install the gnome
pacman -S gnome
gnome package not found, searching for group...
:: group gnome (including ignored packages):
epiphany gnome-applets gnome-backgrounds gnome-control-center gnome-desktop gnome-icon-theme gnome-media gnome-mime-data gnome-mount gnome-panel gnome-python gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-themes gnome2-user-docs libgail-gnome metacity nautilus notification-daemon yelp
:: Install whole content? [Y/n] n
:: Install epiphany from group gnome? [Y/n] n
:: Install gnome-applets from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-backgrounds from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-control-center from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-desktop from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-icon-theme from group gnome? [Y/n] y
:: Install gnome-media from group gnome? [Y/n] n
:: Install gnome-mime-data from group gnome? [Y/n]
After the installation, each of those packages is treated as an independently installed package. The "group" gnome only exists when you select packages for the initial installation. There have been threads on this forum posted by users who didn't understand why "pacman -Syu" failed to retrieve packages that had been added to the gnome "group". That's because pacman simply updates the existing packages and doesn't know about groups once their on the system. If they add "gnome-some-new-package", you have to either run "pacman -S gnome" again and either re-install all the packages or run through the dialogue until you get to the new package, or you have to explicitly install any new packages directly. You need to find out when a new package has been included in gnome too, because there is no way for pacman to know this (I posted a script somewhere to check if you have all packages in a group, forgot where though).
The idea of a metapackage is that it is an empty package that simply specifies other packages as dependencies (i.e it contains no files, just package information). That's what metapax creates (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53788). If a gnome metapackage is created with metapax, the user can install it and get all of the packages in gnome. If a new package is added to the gnome metapackage, this package will be retrieved on the next sync update. The user doesn't need to regularly check that he has everything in gnome because the metapackage handles all the packages in gnome.
The problem with this approach is that everything it specifies is a "depends", so you have to include everything. With "optdepends" though, you would get a similar dialogue to the one when installing a group (as my example above for gimp), but the installed metapackage would have all of the advantages of a package when syncing and uninstalling.
Users would also create their own metapackages. Lets say that you would like to create a custom DE from existing packages so that you can quickly install a simliar desktop on different systems. You could create a metapackage with your window manager, text editor, image viewer, video player, etc. You could then simply install that package on different machines and be presented with the choice of which components you'd like to install. You could distribute this over your network with a local user repository. If you later want to add another package to it, that package could be optionally included on the different machines during the next update.
Last edited by Xyne (2009-01-11 18:03:10)

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Malware is always changing to get around the defenses against it. These instructions are valid as of now, as far as I know. They won't necessarily be valid in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for more recent discussions or start a new one.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Step 1
From the Safari menu bar, select
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/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
Right-click or control-click the line and select
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Repeat with each of these lines:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
Restart the computer and empty the Trash. Then delete the following items in the same way:
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~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ConduitNPAPIPlugin.plugin
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This trojan is often found on illegal websites that traffic in pirated content such as movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect more of the same, and worse, to follow.
You may be wondering why you didn't get a warning from Gatekeeper about installing software from an unknown developer, as you should have. The reason is that the Internet criminal behind VSearch has a codesigning certificate issued by Apple, which causes Gatekeeper to give the installer a pass. Apple could revoke the certificate, but as of this writing has not done so, even though it's aware of the problem. This failure of oversight has compromised both Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. You can't rely on Gatekeeper alone to protect you from harmful software.
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