Categories: Development

TODO list for CRUX 3.7.1 (or 3.8)

Ports

core

• reconsider the default Mail Transport Agent: something more lightweight than exim will satisfy the majority of use cases
• in '/etc/rc' use a better algorithm to seed /dev/urandom
• in '/etc/rc' consider protecting all mount commands behind a /bin/mountpoint test, for users who configure a multi-stage boot process
• in '/etc/rc.conf' consider introducing a variable for the screen blanking time

opt

xorg

• move xorg-libpixman to the opt collection, for easier setup of a headless machine with the xorg collection deactivated

Pkgutils

• remove the code that handles md5 checksums
• verify the signature of Pkgfile before sourcing it
• consider the possibility to handle git sources natively
• fix the symlink handling in pkgadd

prt-get

• improve the argument parsing when a mix of installed and not-installed ports is given (merging 'install' and 'update', perhaps?)
• consider merging 'install' and 'depinst' so they both resolve dependencies ('grpinst' will remain as an option if dependency resolution is not desired)
• update the man-page: drop all references to nonexistent ports, and show practical examples of pipelines

Iso

Documentation

• decide how to deal with upstream projects that no longer bundle pre-generated man-pages
  • Option 1: never side-load from a third-party source (which might be out of sync with upstream), but generate man-pages from the provided formats if the necessary software is present
  • Option 2: side-load third-party man-pages from Arch or Void (which have a reputation of staying up-to-date) in case the conversion software (pandoc, python3-sphinx) is not present
  • Option 3: ??