2008/8/29 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Now that our installer installs the whole base group by default, I'd wish it would stick to the essential part. I suggest cleaning this up a bit:
Packages that IMO shouldn't be in base: . . . agree.
We should also remove all packages from base that only are in there as a dependency of another package and for no other reason, as they will be pulled in when needed anyway.
Packages that we should think about: - mdadm - pcmciautils - cryptsetup, lvm2 (plus their deps libgcrypt, libgpg-error, device-mapper) Those are base tools, but not everybody needs them. I'd like to keep them in base, but maybe someone else may disagree.
Can be removed from base IMHO (and obviously left in core).
- nano Do we really need another editor in base? YES! I'd rather like to see vim removed from base, than nano.
Let's leave it in core, remove it from base. -1024
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)