#+title: sparkly-ebuilds
#+author: winter Sparkles

this is a collection of gentoo packages you can use but i just made them
for myself

* plover
install =app-text/plover= for the open source stenography engine [[https://opensteno.org/plover/][Plover]].
it's written in python, currently targeting python 3.13, but in my
testing it also works flawlessly on 3.14.

note that the only officially supported installation method is appimage;
personally i hate appimages so that's why i made this set of packages
but do bear in mind it may have sneaky unexpected bugs. if you encounter
any bugs using this package please report them to *me* and not to the
upstream plover project unless they also occur with the appimage.

** plugins
- the integrated Plugins Manager inside plover will not work, as it
  tries to install python modules globally which is blocked by gentoo.
  therefore you have to install them via portage. i packaged a few here
- see the category =plover-plugin= (e.g. =plover-plugin/lapwing-aio= for
  [[https://lapwing.aerick.ca/][Lapwing]] support)
- =app-text/plover2cat= for the transcription software [[https://plover2cat.readthedocs.io/][Plover2CAT]]

* niri-screenshot-tools
install =gui-apps/niri-screenshot-tools= for the awesome cool software
that lets you annotate and upload your screenshots from niri (source
[[https://codeberg.org/whenthesilly/niri-screenshot-tools][here]])! beware it's
a live ebuild so you have to unmask it in your system portage config

* hare stuff

** bunnytask
install =app-text/bunnytask= for the cool and skrunkly TODO.TXT task
manager made by my beautiful wife :D (it's live, pls unmask)

** lettuce
install =dev-hare/lettuce= for my hare utilities library

* games

** vintage story
install =games-action/vintage-story-bin= for the voxel sandbox survival game
[[https://www.vintagestory.at/][Vintage Story]]. currently the package is not
very well tested and also is amd64 only. if you find a bug tell me

** blue prince
install =games-puzzle/blue-prince-bin= for the roguelike puzzle game
[[https://blueprincegame.com/][Blue Prince]]. needs unmasking and also needs
you to provide a cracked copy of the windows game files (ask me for a magnet
link ^_^). the advantage of my crappy ebuild is that it conveniently sets up
a wineprefix for you according to what i found is necessary for it to run well,
plus it creates a desktop entry to launch the game from your desktop
environment.

if you're trying to install it and it's giving you checksum errors just pass
=--digest= to emerge, that will make it ignore the manifest file. the checksum
in the manifest file is for my copy but depending on where you got your copy
it may well be different. this is fine though you can probably just ignore it!!

in the future i might try to make a fancy linux-native repack of this game,
since it just uses unity engine and a few fairly common-looking plugins. watch
this space :3

* miscellaneous software
- =app-crypt/keyroost= is a command line (and graphical, unless you disable
  =gui= use flag) management tool for a few usb security keys such as yubikeys
  and token2 keys. it's fully vibecoded by the project owner's own admission,
  so i don't really like using it, but it's the only way i can see to manage
  PIV credentials on my token2 devices on linux
- =media-sound/pocketsphinx= is CMU PocketSphinx, a relatively well established
  speech recognition library. it's generally not as good as newer asr systems
  but it's nice and small and has a convenient api and /is/ better than the old
  sphinx2 which is available in gentoo main repository
- =gui-wm/cow= is the wayland compositor [[https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow][CoW]],
  which is based on river and has a cool fvwm style of operation, i recommend it

* shitposts
=sparkly-misc/wruff= literally just puts a message saying "wruff!" as
its post-installation task and does literally nothing else it doesn't
actually install anything. i don't know why i did this to be honest. if
you will use it i suggest don't add it to your world set just oneshot it