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[–] Dumptruck ago 

I honestly cannot say enough good things about the architect project. great auto installer

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[–] Silver_Tube 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Folks often script it, some even go as far as making their own install media with the script sitting there ready to go. There is also a project based from the arch evo guy that is made to do what you want, take an existing arch setup and make an automated installer out of it. I'm not sure how far along they are though. The arch forums get people posting install scripts to them from time to time. The community frowns upon them because they think that install ritual is necessary, but the need to save time is legitimate if you ask me.

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[–] aoeu [S] ago 

Since most of the installs I do depend on the device I am using, I'd like to keep most of the install ritual. At least up to the point where I have a working system. After that gathering up configs is annoying, which is what I aim to automate. I should look into fetching stuff from my VPS with a script.

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[–] oddlydrawn 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I think you could do

pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)" > pkglist

on a system that has all the packages you want. Then install all those packages on a new system with

pacman -S `cat pkglist`

to reinstall the packages. Where (`) is the character under the tilde (~), next to the 1. Not sure about AUR packages, though, since I use cower. You can list those packages with

pacman -Qm

For config files, I keep some in git and copy others over on a usb drive.