I agree many/all packages you listed in base-storage, base-network, base-utils (and maybe some in base-boot, dunno) do not belong in base, but I don't understand why we should make new groups to categorize them so heavily. What we usually do with packages like this is put them in core, and remove them from base group, done.
- [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Tom Gundersen
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Thomas Bächler
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Allan McRae
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanu... Tom Gundersen
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Dave Reisner
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Gaetan Bisson
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Tobias Powalowski
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Andreas Radke
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanu... Dan McGee
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cl... Eric Bélanger
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanup Dieter Plaetinck
- Re: [arch-dev-public] [RFC] another base cleanu... Tobias Powalowski

