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Request more tools on Arch boxes (no mosh edition)

Caleb Maclennan requested to merge alerque/infrastructure:request-less-more-tools into master

This is everything from !481 (closed) minus mosh, which is controversial. Even if it does get approved it would need special handling like firewall rules, so I decided isolating it will make this easier to review and move forward.

From original MR:

  1. While I was adding that, I also noticed my favorite diff viewer, delta is not available. Seeing as how bat and colordiff and similar tools are, I figured it wouldn't hurt to suggest that too.

  2. The myrepos perl script is great for managing functions across an assortment of repositories (whether svn/git/whatever). This is already proving quite useful to keep track of various modules in sparse svn repository checkouts.

  3. The odds and ends in moreutils are things I find useful while messing about with packaging on a daily basis.

  4. Lastly I saw GNU stow is there for dotfile management, but I use vcsh and would like to request it. Others might appreciate yadm, chezmoi, or others but perhaps adding them when somebody is actually going to use them is better so I didn't add them. VCSH at least can be 'installed' from user space –which I'm happy to do for use in managing shell aliases, editor rc files, etc.– but it seems like I might not be the only one that would find it useful.

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