enable PDO in PHP
because mysql_* is deprecated in PHP 5.5
color in pacman
bootstrap: no more enospc hacks
I will just handle swap & pkgcache manually
This was only important back when archiso updates were rare
bootstrap: hostname is already set anyway
bootstrap: ignore syncfirst lines
SyncFirst was removed from default pacman.conf back in eaa714 (2012-08-02)
bootstrap: filesystem upgrade workaround is ancient
bootstrap: just install proterozoic
smartmontools & base-devel are unnecessary
tzdata & curl come by default
pacman 4 update was over a year ago. key initialization is done by the livecd automatically.
locale.sh forced update is ancient history.
problems with newer cryptsetup were solved ages ago.
simpler pacman calls
progress bars are fine
--needed is redundant since proterozoic obviously will not be there yet
pcspkr doesn't seem to be on anyway - no beeps!
bootstrap: connect via ssh key