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| author | Aryadev Chavali <aryadev@aryadevchavali.com> | 2025-05-09 18:15:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Aryadev Chavali <aryadev@aryadevchavali.com> | 2025-05-28 00:05:28 +0100 |
| commit | 23a853e1bdbdda189e9e7a431db47f4882e3eb0e (patch) | |
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@@ -38,27 +38,16 @@ dies. I don't maintain this for anyone but me; verily, I have no shame about it. Don't expect this to work for you if you're not willing to roll your sleeves up. * Emacs archives -On a fresh machine it takes a horrendous amount of time to completely -setup my Emacs configuration. This is largely due to /straight/ (the -package manager I use for Emacs) having to pull over 80 git -repositories for the different packages in my configuration, which is -obviously a network bound task. In comparison, it takes a much -shorter time to build the Lisp in these packages then load my -configuration. +80 Git repositories is a lot for Emacs to pull in order to setup my +configuration. Would be nice if I could pull all of it down at once +for use instead of having to wait for _straight_ (my Emacs package +manager of choice) to do it synchronously. -Hence I've introduced this measure: a compressed archive of a minimal -viable configuration for Emacs. This contains my configuration files, -custom Lisp code, all the repositories for external packages I use and -the straight package cache. Instead of downloading each repository -individually, this archive contains all of them immediately. - -On my current machine after downloading the archive it takes around -209s to completely build the system including both package and custom -Lisp compilation. Once this is done Emacs takes less than 1 second to -boot. - -*NOTE*: This time doesn't include the native compilation time, as that - is asynchronous anyway. +These Emacs archives are MVC (Minimum Viable Configuration) including +all the necessary Lisp which you can pull down and load directly. +Most of the time post-download will be building. You should be able +to find the latest archive +[[https://aryadevchavali.com/resources][here]]. ** Scripts *IMPORTANT*: These are heavy scripts, expect them to take a while. Therefore, if in Emacs, do _not_ run these via ~C-c C-c~ because it @@ -82,3 +71,8 @@ And this script sends it over via rsync rsync -avz --info=progress2 --info=name0 emacs-config.tar.zst \ root@aryadevchavali.com:/var/www/html/resources #+end_src + +You can do the last bit if using Emacs: just open the directory where +you've compressed the configuration in ~dired~, open the remote +directory in another split, then =M-r= ~dired-rsync~ to copy it over. +You get a cute Little progress indicator in the mode line as well! |