On 26/02/10 22:31, Thomas Bächler wrote:
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).
I'll flag it for removal from base but leave in [core] for the moment.
I am on the side that thinks it is probably best to keep this on the
installer. :P
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.
I will leave wpa_supplicant in base until such a group is created.
Cheers,
Allan
