cachyos-extras

Recipe card from the charly-distros plugin (Images — the deployable catalog).

cachyos-extras — the CachyOS host-parity workstation toolset

Candy Properties

Property	Value
Distro	Arch/CachyOS (pac + AUR)
Requires	@github.com/opencharly/layer-yay (AUR helper)
Scope	host workstation tools (no hardware/boot/firmware/network)

What it installs

The CachyOS netinstall + manual-install gap, reverse-resolved to top-level packages: system/pacman tooling (pacman-contrib, pkgfile, rebuild-detector, paru, plocate), diagnostics/monitors (btop, duf, glances, pv), editors/terminal/apps (micro, nano + syntax, vim, alacritty, meld, firefox), net/fs/mail (inetutils, nfs-utils, syncthing, s-nail, unrar), desktop-integration (accountsservice, xdg-user-dirs, xdg-utils, python-defusedxml, python-packaging), and AUR (cloudflared-bin, gvisor-tap-vsock). Host-hardware/boot/firmware/network entries are excluded by design.

Usage

Compose it in a CachyOS workstation box:

cachyos-workstation:
  candy:
    base: cachyos-base
    candy:
      - '@github.com/opencharly/layer-cachyos-extras:v2026.xxx.yyyy'

Verification

plan: check: steps assert the headline binaries resolve on the built image (/usr/bin/btop, /usr/bin/duf, /usr/bin/paru, command -v cloudflared, /usr/bin/syncthing) and that accountsservice is installed.

Related

• /charly-distros:cachyos — the CachyOS base
• /charly-tools:yay — the AUR helper this candy requires
• /charly-local:charly-cachyos — the operator workstation profile