Create `archinstall-meta` package to tie in all dependencies

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
arch-linux, python
Domain
build-system, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reviewing the archinstall project's current dependency list and Arch packaging conventions before creating the requested PKGBUILD. Done means archinstall-meta declares the relevant potential packages as dependencies and provides a clear link for packagers tracking changes.

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Description

describe the request

I will use the latest KDE complaints as a reminder that archinstall needs a meta package.

Simply a PKGBUILD file with all of our potential packages as dependencies.
No one will ever install archinstall-meta, but instead it will serve as a link to other packagers so that they can be made aware that potential name changes and re-builds of their packages, affect archinstall in some way.

This will not help us with breaking changes in terms of configuration inside those linked packages, but perhaps we can be made aware of those in another meaningful way.

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