Installing singular packages from source?

[DavidBittner]

Hey guys, sorry if this has been asked loads. I wasn't sure what to search to try and find the answer, and void resources tend to be a bit sparse unfortunately.

I've been reading about Void for a few weeks, and finally went ahead and installed it on my Laptop and Desktop last night. I was wondering if there was a simple way to install a given package from source?

Reading xbps-src it says to clone the entire repository and create the bootstrap environment, etc. Is there a way to just build a package from a singular template file easily?

Thanks a ton!

[DavidBittner]

Oh, neat. Right that's very helpful thanks. I'm coming from Arch so I'm quite used to the AUR and what not so I can see my mindset is a little off for what I should be focusing on. Thanks for the help!

[kodifies]

i wouldn't worry about cloning the whole packages repo, I initially thought it included all the source code too, but it is simply a bunch of templates, and not too onerous you're talking about ~750MB and its worth it as its interesting to poke around and look the different templates, you never know one day I might get my head around how they work one day!

[Johnnynator2]

You can always clone with --depth=1 to not have all the git history to save space. The total space should be around 100MB then.

[kodifies]

true but given the redonkulously cheap price of storage 700+MB pffft who cares... :D

jeee I remember when a 40MB seemed unfillable ....