On 22/1/19 8:03 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > Everything that won’t be part of base-system needs to be added as a > dependency to all requiring packages; alternatively don't omit any first > level runtime dependencies at all. > > This package should only depend on strictly required explicit packages > to get a working minimal Arch Linux system. > > The proposed end result is: > - base: convenient helper group for quickly getting a working system > when installing, must include the new base-system package > - base-system: package defining the minimum dependencies for a working > base runtime
I think the proposal is OK. I'm not comfortable with our line about base group packages being required given how many of them I don't have installed. However... I don't like idea of the base group and base-system package existing together. You definition of what base-system should be is much the same as what the base group was defined to be. What package justifies itself in the base group, but would not be in base-system? It seems we would have two very similar things where one would do. Allan
