Switch to Ansible

[ddnomad]

Why? The way chezmoi handles file ignores and the whole template system becomes confusing and ugly really fast.

Because of #41 I'd need to introduce even more changes to support Debian based hosts and do a whole lot of installs for things like Typora, 1Password, Signal etc. which are all relatively complicated and require adding APT sources, importing GPG keys etc. Doing all of it in a single setup script will get messy really fast.

Ansible will still support all operating systems I want but allow for way more flexibility in terms of organisation, templating and automation.

This is a pain though.

[ddnomad]

Four supported operating system configs:

• Arch Linux + i3wm
• Debian + KDE
• MacOS
• Windows 10

Three supported host types:

• Laptop
• Desktop
• VMWare VM

Three general stages of setup:

• Discovery - detect OS, host type, expose corresponding variables to Ansible
• Dependencies installation - install dependencies per OS / host type; this includes both packages from the OS package manager and the ones that are "sideloaded"
• Configuration installation - generate configs from templates and copy them to corresponding directories

Discovery should always be run before any other stages. Also need to support running dependencies installation / configuration installation together or separately (the way chezmoi is doing it every time the setup script has changed is annoying in practice).

[ddnomad]

Cancelled, Ansible does not blend :(

[ddnomad]

It must blend, given enough time. Slow burn but I'll get there, eventually.