Am 26.02.2010 10:28, schrieb Allan McRae: > HI, > > I mentioned this several months ago and got no response so I will post > again. If there are no objections in 48 hours, the rebuilds will start > hitting [testing]. > > FS#12890 suggests cleaning some of the packages from the base group. > The goals are to remove old packages that are really no longer needed > (e.g. cpio) and packages that are only needed as dependencies for other > packages and would not be installed otherwise (e.g. libfetch). That > will clean up the package selection list for the base group in the > installer. > > Here is the list of what I will do: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup > It splits the packages in the base group into those staying in base; > those removed from base but staying in [core]; those removed from > [core]. Packages marked with (???) mean I am not sure what category to > put them in. If there are no comments, I will be playing it safe with > these.
We don't need rp-pppoe in base (IMO not even in core, but others disagree). We should also remove wpa_supplicant from base. My plans were to create a new "base-networking" and "base-wireless" group. The base-wireless group would (among others) cover wpa_supplicant.
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