"mkinitcpio" needed for "snapper-support" and "btrfs-assistant"?

[DenalB]

@BluishHumility

nor do you need the snapper-support package at all

What is the snapper-support package for and what is missing if I don’t install this package?

EDIT: Found that here:

EOS with custom btrfs/snapper setup

No problem. We can help here. You can do it this way if you want. However, it would be easier if before launching the installer, you edit /etc/calamares/modules/mount.conf and delete the two lines that reference home. That will stop it getting created in the first place. If you do follow your instructions, don’t forget to mount the snapshot somewhere else and copy the files out of it. Alternatively, you could delete your user account and recreate it. Those probably aren’t the commands y…

@BluishHumility

If you are trying to set up Snapper to take snapshots and Grub to be able to boot the snapshots, this post may be a more concise and straightforward summary of how to set that set up:

It seems like it is what I want - create snapshots manually and pre and post pacman installations and be able to select created snapshots in Grub.

@dalto

You can just ignore that message.

@lorebett

you can ignore that message

Sounds good!

I’ll compare the differences of both documents from @dalto and @lorebett . Thanks @BluishHumility for linking to @dalto .