On 22/01/2019 00.23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 22/1/19 8:03 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: >> Everything that won’t be part of base-system needs to be added as a >> dependency to all requiring packages; alternatively don't omit any first >> level runtime dependencies at all. >> >> This package should only depend on strictly required explicit packages >> to get a working minimal Arch Linux system. >> >> The proposed end result is: >> - base: convenient helper group for quickly getting a working system >> when installing, must include the new base-system package >> - base-system: package defining the minimum dependencies for a working >> base runtime > > I think the proposal is OK. I'm not comfortable with our line about > base group packages being required given how many of them I don't have > installed. > > However... I don't like idea of the base group and base-system package > existing together. You definition of what base-system should be is much > the same as what the base group was defined to be. What package > justifies itself in the base group, but would not be in base-system? It > seems we would have two very similar things where one would do. > > Allan >
Maybe it's my reading comprehension failing me but I also don't really understand the point of base-system, or rather why the base group can't be simply stripped down to Levente's list. Bartłomiej
