On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - dialog > Nothing depends on it, why do we even need it in core?
Don't we have tools in base which use dialog? The only ones I can think of are the installer and netcfg. > - hwdetect > Nothing uses it, we don't need that in core either Agreed. We don't even use hwdetect for anything anymore. Move to extra. > - ca-certificates, lzo2, openssl, wpa_supplicant > We need those in core, but really not in base Agreed. Let's remove them from base. > - dash > Nobody uses it by default, may IMO stay in core, but has no place in base I agree. In the future when we actually get things that use dash, we can throw it back in base. > - ppp, rp-pppoe (plus libpcap dep) > Only few people need those, leave them in core, but remove from base Like RedShift said, as long as we make sure they're on the ISO, we should be good. > - tcp_wrappers > No base package needs them as far I know, leave in core, remove from base Are you sure about this? Something feels a little wrong about that, but it may just be a gut feeling. > We should also remove all packages from base that only are in there as a > dependency of another package and for no other reason, as they will be > pulled in when needed anyway. Hmmm, that's probably a good idea. It would definitely clean up "pacman -Sg base". As long as we ensure they deps still stay in core. > Packages that we should think about: > - mdadm > - pcmciautils > - cryptsetup, lvm2 (plus their deps libgcrypt, libgpg-error, device-mapper) > Those are base tools, but not everybody needs them. I'd like to keep them in > base, but maybe someone else may disagree. Hmm, I agree. Another "remove from base, keep on ISO" case > - nano > Do we really need another editor in base? Let's leave it in core, remove it > from base. Agreed, but just note that we still want it on the ISO (again, heh)
