Need little Help to implement something small

[solisinvictum]

Hey @ all,

i gaved the source a little look. i thought i could implement something easy, because i know a little bit C (last time used in School 20 years ago lol).

There is a nice Distro, called CachyOS. One of the benefits is, thats automatic gets detected if the used Hardware is capable to use a specific, optimized Repo (actually -v3 called). In there are Packages wich are optimized for specific CPU Flags/Feature to improve Speed, loadingtime, etc pp.

If the Hardware support that, this repo gets enabled (but without the notification for the user, or a Info or somewhat similar).

I already "created" something like that, with few Lines of bash/fish. See here:

But instead of figure out how to format it correctly so it looks uniform (pipes, cat, sed, what_ever). i thought i could create a plugin/module/edit_somewhere_in_the_source_directly (my first try was simply to pipe the output through a script, wich replace the "Packages:" entry with "Packages: 1234 (v3 Repo enabled)". Wich works, but isnt so "beauty" and a quick n dirty solution).

But to be honest, in my head this sounded easier as thought, because i dont know where to start in the source.

Could somebody give me a example, or a hint how to realize this?

Thanks very much!

[LinusDierheimer]

Take a look here. Note that pacman on Manjaro already gets some info appended, you can implement yours the same way.

[solisinvictum]

So Manjaro forked fastfetch? or what do you mean?

Thanks for the link. I give it a look and try it to understand :D

[LinusDierheimer]

No, on manjaro the output is either (pacman)[stable] or (pacman)[unstable] depending on the enabled repo. I suppose you want to do something similar, so i figured the code for that might help you.

[LinusDierheimer]

Relevant code is around that line: https://github.com/LinusDierheimer/fastfetch/blob/a95eb65faabd00a8cde4e83d9815b70d27f34d2f/src/detection/packages/packages_linux.c#L285

[LinusDierheimer]

Converted this, since it isn't an issue with fastfetch.