On 2011-01-19 at 08:30:14 -0500, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > 1) There is a groupe of packages that are required. Theses packages are > necessary for the proper functioning of the system (eg. a kernel, a boot > loader, initscript, glibc, etc). The system will not run well or be usable > without will be here. It is not necessary for other package to depends on > them, because they **should** be there (although it does not hurt if a > package > depends on them).
kernel and bootloader aren't really required e.g. in a chroot; I don't think that such a list would include much beside glibc and pacman with its dependencies (otherwise it wouldn't be arch) -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org
