What extra packages does Cachy install?

Almost a decade long Arch user and now considering switching to Cachy. But part of the reason I like Arch is that I choose what is and isn’t installed. So is there a list somewhere that has what extra packages the CachyOS installer installs? Over and above Cachy specific ones (like Hello). My spouse is giving Cachy a go and I can see that Meld is one of the preinstalled apps but having an actual list rather than manually going through packages would be great.

I’ve also been told that Cachy can be installed from the live image and install it the same was as Arch but that I may have to edit the live image’s pacman.conf to switch it to Cachy’s repos. Is this the case and would this be simpler/more time effective than installing Cachy as is and uninstalling unwanted packages after?

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Personally, I remove most of the non-hidden “needed” packages after an installation, so they’re not strictly needed at all. The hidden ones are.

- name: "CachyOS required (hidden)"
  description: "needed CachyOS packages"
  hidden: true
  selected: true
  critical: true
  packages:
     - cachyos-hooks <-- okay
     - cachyos-keyring <-- okay
     - cachyos-mirrorlist <-- okay
     - cachyos-v3-mirrorlist <-- okay
     - cachyos-v4-mirrorlist <-- okay
     - cachyos-rate-mirrors <-- okay
     - linux-cachyos <-- okay
     - linux-cachyos-headers <-- okay
     - chwd <-- okay
- name: "CachyOS Packages"
  description: "needed CachyOS packages"
  hidden: false
  selected: true
  critical: true
  packages:
     - cachy-browser <-- nope, but still because of preference
     - cachyos-fish-config <-- nope, bash for me
     - cachyos-ananicy-rules <-- nope, only needed if you want ananicy
     - cachyos-hello <-- nope
     - cachyos-kernel-manager <-- nope
     - cachyos-packageinstaller <-- nope
     - cachyos-settings <-- okay, sadly this pulls in more stuff I just do not want
     - cachyos-zsh-config <-- nope
     - cachyos-micro-settings <-- nope
     - cachyos-wallpapers <-- nope