Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-03-18 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public
On 18/03/2019 00.35, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > [2019-03-18 00:25:09 +0100] Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public: >> Assuming we implement this group or meta-package as something of policy, >> i.e. every repository package is assumed to depend on it. This would then >> make base

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-17 13:35:55 -1000] Gaetan Bisson: > Only 156 packages have glibc in their depends array. My bad. It's 624 packages for a total of 10.000. Cheers. -- Gaetan signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-03-17 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-03-18 00:25:09 +0100] Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public: > Assuming we implement this group or meta-package as something of policy, i.e. > every repository package is assumed to depend on it. This would then make > base similar to base-devel, except for depends() instead of makedepends(). >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-03-17 Thread Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:55:27 +1000 Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 13/2/19 8:17 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On 2/12/19 7:16 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > >> [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > >>> Just in case it

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-02-13 08:55:27 +1000] Allan McRae via arch-dev-public: > On 13/2/19 8:17 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > > On 2/12/19 7:16 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > >> [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > >>> Just in case it wasn’t clear, my

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 12/02/2019 à 19:16, Gaetan Bisson a écrit : > [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: >> Just in case it wasn’t clear, my answer would have been mostly the same >> as Eli’s. >> >> So, Gaetan, Allan and Bartłomiej (or anyone else for that matter), do >> you have further

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 2/12/19 11:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 13/2/19 8:17 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: >> On 2/12/19 7:16 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: Just in case it wasn’t clear, my answer would have been

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 13/2/19 8:17 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 2/12/19 7:16 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: >> [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: >>> Just in case it wasn’t clear, my answer would have been mostly the same >>> as Eli’s. >>> >>> So,

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
On 2/12/19 7:16 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > [2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: >> Just in case it wasn’t clear, my answer would have been mostly the same >> as Eli’s. >> >> So, Gaetan, Allan and Bartłomiej (or anyone else for that matter), do >> you

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-02-12 16:40:08 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > Just in case it wasn’t clear, my answer would have been mostly the same > as Eli’s. > > So, Gaetan, Allan and Bartłomiej (or anyone else for that matter), do > you have further comments/questions regarding this, does the existence >

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-12 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 06/02/2019 à 00:26, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public a écrit : > On 2/5/19 4:31 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: >> Bruno, >> >> We all seem to agree that [base] plays no satisfactory role in its >> current state, so I think Allan definitely has a point: let us first >> turn [base]

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 2/5/19 4:31 PM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > Bruno, > > We all seem to agree that [base] plays no satisfactory role in its > current state, so I think Allan definitely has a point: let us first > turn [base] into something useful, and only then wonder if we need > something more.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
Bruno, We all seem to agree that [base] plays no satisfactory role in its current state, so I think Allan definitely has a point: let us first turn [base] into something useful, and only then wonder if we need something more. [2019-02-05 14:38:26 +0100] Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public: > Le

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 5/2/19 11:38 pm, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Maybe. As I said in my answer to Bartłomiej, I don’t know if beginners > know enough things to install what they need beyond the minimum system, > or if they just read the wiki about doing this or that, which might > assume they have the current base group

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 05/02/2019 à 12:54, Allan McRae a écrit : > On 5/2/19 9:06 pm, Bruno Pagani wrote: >> Le 22/01/2019 à 00:59, Allan McRae a écrit : >>> On 22/1/19 9:41 am, Bruno Pagani wrote: Le 22/01/2019 à 00:23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public a écrit : > On 22/1/19 8:03 am, Levente Polyak via

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 5/2/19 9:06 pm, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Le 22/01/2019 à 00:59, Allan McRae a écrit : >> On 22/1/19 9:41 am, Bruno Pagani wrote: >>> Le 22/01/2019 à 00:23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public a écrit : On 22/1/19 8:03 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > Everything that won’t be

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 22/01/2019 à 14:44, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public a écrit : > On 22/01/2019 00.23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: >> 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

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-02-05 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 22/01/2019 à 00:59, Allan McRae a écrit : > On 22/1/19 9:41 am, Bruno Pagani wrote: >> Le 22/01/2019 à 00:23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public a écrit : >>> 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

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-22 Thread Jiachen YANG via arch-dev-public
On 2019/01/23 0:26, Doug Newgard via arch-dev-public wrote: > This is simply not true. devtools/makechrootpkg installs base-devel only, not > base, so it's totally irrelevant to this discussion. > > Doug Oh I am sorry for the misinformation. -- Jiachen YANG (farseerfc) signature.asc

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-22 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-dev-public
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:09:32 +0900 Jiachen YANG via arch-dev-public wrote: > Currently the "base" group serves at least 2 purposes for us: ... > 2. A base chroot environment for devtools/makechrootpkg to prepare > packaging. ... > Currently, devtools/makechrootpkg will install "base" group for

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-22 Thread Jiachen YANG via arch-dev-public
On 2019/01/22 7:26, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 1/21/19 5:03 PM, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: >> # Proposal >> >> >> The proposed end result is: >> - base: convenient helper group for quickly getting a working system >> when installing, must include the new

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-22 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-dev-public
On 22/01/2019 00.23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > 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

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-22 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 22/01/2019 à 03:25, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public a écrit : > [2019-01-21 18:58:54 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public: >> On 1/21/19 6:53 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> I agree with this package list. It's missing mkinitcpio though. >> No it is not, mkinitcpio

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public
[2019-01-21 18:58:54 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public: > On 1/21/19 6:53 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > > I agree with this package list. It's missing mkinitcpio though. > > No it is not, mkinitcpio is definitively not needed. > > It's only required in order to

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 06:58:54PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > The most recent version of my PKGBUILD draft for this "base-system" > PKGBUILD (which I shared with Levente during the planning stages of this > proposal) can be found here: https://paste.xinu.at/KZmYqQwIO/ FYI

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
On 22/1/19 9:41 am, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Le 22/01/2019 à 00:23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public a écrit : >> 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;

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 1/21/19 6:53 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > I agree with this package list. It's missing mkinitcpio though. No it is not, mkinitcpio is definitively not needed. It's only required in order to execute the pacman hooks for a linux kernel package (or do so manually). And

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
Em janeiro 21, 2019 20:03 Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public escreveu: # Proposal There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages, which

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-dev-public
Le 22/01/2019 à 00:23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public a écrit : > 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

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Allan McRae via arch-dev-public
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

Re: [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 1/21/19 5:03 PM, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > # Proposal > > There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system > installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any > packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages, > which

[arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

2019-01-21 Thread Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
# Proposal There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages, which basically makes it a hard requirement. The current way of defining a