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Cool Void related packages?

Hello, i am a soon to be Void user, and i would like to know cool Void related packages that can help a newbie like me. At the moment i found:

  • vpm, a xbps helper

  • vsv, a runit helper

  • vpsm, a xbps-src helper

Are there any other? I skimmed through Void unique packages on Repology and found "only" these three. Tell me if i'm wrong. Many thanks, cheers

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    xtools - great collection of void related utilities

    octoxbps - nice xbps gui, I use it primarily for the systray notifier utility

    vpnd - Void Package Notifier Daemon, another update notifier utility with nice extras

    pkgtop - interactive package manager, cross-distro

    voidvault - alternative and unofficial installer for void with full disk encryption

    What is the recommended way to run the octoxbps-notifier without root rights? Run with sudo?

    The notifier runs without root rights. It asks for elevated priviledges through a polkit helper to run xbps and display updates. I neither use it for updating packages, nor recommend for actually doing the update.

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    I like this bash function 

    xs () 
{ 
    xpkg -a | fzf -m --preview 'xq {1}' --preview-window=right:66%:wrap | xargs -ro xi
}

    needs fuzzyfinder (fzf) installed and xq (in xtools). Gives you a very nice view of what xbps packages exist. I didn't write it, but I'm very happy with it.

    Amazing. 😘

    I don't use this anymore though, I use fuzzypkg from xbps that does the same, but with a little more detail.

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    Probably all these 3. Not sure. But I can tell you it’s really not difficult to install stuff, remove stuff, get runit services up etc. For example me, I’ve created alias commands to shorten how much I have to type

    Are there any other?

    Probably all these 3.

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    I understood his question very well and I gave the simple answer that there’s probably only the 3 he’s mentioned. So I don’t see the issue

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    lolcat-c is a great example of the Void spirit.

    It's hardly an important package, but lolcat, with its bloat and dependencies, has been replaced with the equally functional but smaller lolcat-c.

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    wasn't aware of vsv until this post, so thanks for that, it is really handy. while using xbps isn't difficult at all, i do think vpm is one of those essential things (even if only because it's less typing) for me. not sure of any other tools that would be void specific though.

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    vsv is great, thanks for the tip.