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it's designed to be a hacker distro; i just felt like "hacker distros" frequently tend to make a lot of things overly manual for no reason primarily due to halfassed choices made when packaging things - the way things are built in chimera is so that whatever is in the repo is "install and go" - and this includes things like large complicated desktops, in general things are designed so that if you bootstrap a system from scratch (by installing all the packages in an empty root) you need to do nothing more - other than the stuff you wish to explicitly change, and this is done without involving complicated scripts or anything of the likes, vast majority of packages install by simply unpacking themselves

to a degree your system package graph also defines your system configuration for things that are coarse enough to allow it; it's also easily auditable