install.sh installs desired − installed from packages/*.pkgs, which guarantees a fresh box reaches
the declared state — and nothing anywhere checked that the declared state still describes the
machines. Measured against the Calamares install day, blankpad carries 41 hand-installed packages
and packages/blankpad.pkgs declared one line.
pkg-inventory.sh walks the other direction: installed − declared, with the pacman log as the
baseline so installer furniture is never reported as a hand install. It splits additions by
whether a sync db can serve them (Chaotic-AUR counts, so only true AUR routes to aur.pkgs),
excludes orphans from --emit, reports flatpak apps without pretending install.sh installs them,
and exits 3 rather than guessing when the sync databases are unreadable.
16 black-box tests over fixtures and a stubbed pacman. Two of them exist because the first
implementation was wrong in ways a small fixture cannot show: sort|head under pipefail dies of
SIGPIPE on a real 1000-line install-day log (awk-exit closes the pipe exactly as head does), and
tr without a trailing echo glues the next report label onto the last folded name.
Docs: omp-docs/tools/packages.md now owns the package tier — install.sh was never documented.
Refs #51
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