Function select_additional_packages

archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py:121–200

(
	preset: list[str] = [],
	repositories: set[Repository] = set(),
)

async def select_additional_packages(
	preset: list[str] = [],
	repositories: set[Repository] = set(),
) -> list[str]:
	repositories |= {Repository.Core, Repository.Extra}

	respos_text = ', '.join(r.value for r in repositories)
	output = tr('Repositories: {}').format(respos_text) + '\n'
	output += tr('Loading packages...')

	result = await Loading[dict[str, AvailablePackage]](
		header=output,
		data_callback=lambda: list_available_packages(tuple(repositories)),
	).show()

	if result.type_ != ResultType.Selection:
		debug('Error while loading packages')
		return preset

	packages = result.get_value()

	if not packages:
		await Notify(tr('No packages found')).show()
		return []

	package_groups = PackageGroup.from_available_packages(packages)

	# Additional packages (with some light weight error handling for invalid package names)
	header = tr('Only packages such as base, sudo, linux, linux-firmware, efibootmgr and optional profile packages are installed.') + '\n'
	header += tr('Note: base-devel is no longer installed by default. Add it here if you need build tools.') + '\n'
	header += tr('Select any packages from the below list that should be installed additionally') + '\n'

	# there are over 15k packages so this needs to be quick
	preset_packages: list[AvailablePackage | PackageGroup] = []
	for p in preset:
		if p in packages:
			preset_packages.append(packages[p])
		elif p in package_groups:
			preset_packages.append(package_groups[p])

	items = [
		MenuItem(
			name,
			value=pkg,
			preview_action=lambda x: x.value.info() if x.value else None,
		)
		for name, pkg in packages.items()
	]

	items += [
		MenuItem(
			name,
			value=group,
			preview_action=lambda x: x.value.info() if x.value else None,
		)
		for name, group in package_groups.items()
	]