Various possible TODOS and notes

[picodotdev]

• Do the alis-packages.sh validations at the start of alis.sh to avoid start the installation and fail when packages installation
• Support to manage dotfiles
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles
• Echo the disk device that will be partitioned, implement auto feature with a priority list
• Improve exit and error messages
• Improve error message bios using systemd
  Put in red and a description with what went wrong
• Support qemu virtualization, install drivers/packages a virtuabox and vmware
  https://github.com/classy-giraffe/easy-arch/blob/d539d2f9003996f6c20ba7806086057f57630b73/easy-arch.sh#L15
• Add commands to create a KVM VM or a VirtualBox VM for SS/cloud-init install
  https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-and-manage-kvm-virtual-machines-from-cli
  https://ostechnix.com/enable-uefi-support-for-kvm-virtual-machines-in-linux/
• Add systemd service for pacman cache cleaner
  Allow to select number of backups
• Universal command
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/192249/how-do-i-parse-command-line-arguments-in-bash
  https://www.baeldung.com/linux/bash-parse-command-line-arguments
• Configure EDITOR, PAGER variable
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables

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• Create a ncurses wizard to configure alis.conf and start installation in textual mode.
• Ncurses with Vala (ValaNcurses.vala, commands output to file, copy file to installed system?) or with Lanterna and Java 9/10 using jlink
• Alow home in own partition
• GRUB in user locale
• Install a GRUB theme
• Add support to YubiKey on LVM and encyption
• Suspend and Hibernate, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate
• Icon theme (numix), antergos GNOME theme
• GNOME, KDE autologin> ??? gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen true. sudo -u other dbus-launch gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites ... https://askubuntu.com/questions/323776/gsettings-not-working-over-ssh
• Review https://linuxgnublog.org/es/instalacion-de-arch-linux/
• Review https://github.com/erm2587/ArchLinuxInstaller, https://github.com/helmuthdu/aui, https://github.com/MatMoul/archfi/, https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall, https://github.com/helmuthdu/aui/blob/master/lilo, https://github.com/CodigoCristo/arcris
• Support DWM, Bspwm, Openbox, Xmonad
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dwm
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bspwm
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Openbox
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad
• Support Secure Boot
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module
  add !tpm module #194
  https://gist.github.com/huntrar/e42aee630bee3295b2c671d098c81268
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system
• Support Plymouth
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth
• Support fscrypt
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fscrypt
• Support ZFS on root fs
• Support Mac
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mac