diff --git a/dotfiles-old/scripts/README.txt b/dotfiles-old/scripts/README.txt
index 8d13bb2..6644790 100644
--- a/dotfiles-old/scripts/README.txt
+++ b/dotfiles-old/scripts/README.txt
@@ -17,12 +17,23 @@ if [ $1 = "arch" ]; then
 	# this enables the multilib repo. may fuck shit up.
 	sudo printf '[multilib]\nInclude = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist\n' >>/etc/pacman.conf
 
+	# because of this right here packages/all should have a trailing
+	# newline
 	sudo pacman -S $(cat packages/all packages/arch_pacman)
-	bash arch_yay.sh # builds yay for use with Arch Linux.
+
+	bash arch_yay.sh
 	yay -S $(cat packages/arch_yay)
 
 	# PKGBUILD to symlink sudo to doas
+	# sudo is provided by base-devel so this has to be done after the
+	# pacman stuff. however, it might be beneficial to do this before the
+	# yay stuff so it doesn't constantly prompt for the sudo password.
+	# all depends on how careful you wanna be.
 	bash arch_doas-sudo.sh
+	# btw, you can undo this with pacman -S sudo
+
+elif [ $1 = "debian" ]; then
+
 fi
 
 bash dotfiles.sh
diff --git a/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/arch_pacman b/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/arch_pacman
index b4ce328..466396a 100644
--- a/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/arch_pacman
+++ b/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/arch_pacman
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ xorg-xauth
 xorg-xinit
 xorg-xrdb
 xpdf
+youtube-dl
diff --git a/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/pip b/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/pip
deleted file mode 100644
index 12570ed..0000000
--- a/dotfiles-old/scripts/packages/pip
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-youtube-dl