On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Any comments before I start? > Allan >
cracklib is a dependency of pam so we might want to keep it in core. We can just remove it from the base group.
