packwiz / packwiz-installer

An installer for packwiz modpacks, with automatic auto-updating and optional mods! Works well with MultiMC and on servers.
https://packwiz.infra.link/
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Modpack merging (multiple pack URLs) #38

Open ghost opened 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Note

Sorry if this is already implemented or has been asked before, I have tried to search for it and didn't find anything.

Why?

I'm making a modpack and I want to merge Fabulously Optimized into it, I would add all of the mods that FO has, but then they wouldn't update with FO.

How

So instead, I would like to have a command like packwiz packwiz install https://[some-server]/pack.toml which would add the modpack.

The modpacks would act as normal mods but when installing (using packwiz-installer) the modpack it would expand into many other mods.

Note 2

Sorry if this makes no sense, I can explain more in the replies.

comp500 commented 1 year ago

I guess this would allow packs to "inherit" others? It would add a fair amount of complexity, but this is definitely a use case that others have mentioned before - I'd like to support it. Instead of adding this as part of the pack format, do you think it would be sufficient to implement this as a list of pack.toml links you supply to packwiz-installer instead? That would also mean users can use the same "overlay" pack with any other "base".

ghost commented 1 year ago

Yeah, that would work!

OffsetMonkey538 commented 8 months ago

Any update on this? I'd love to have my pre-launch command download both additive and a servers custom pack. Even just an option to not delete existing mods would be fine, then I could just run the command twice with different urls