Le 22/01/2019 à 00:23, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public a écrit :
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
On 22/1/19 8:03 am, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: 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
In the proposal, base would really just be a convenient helper for e.g. beginners installing their system, so they could get all tools that are often used during install (e.g. cryptsetup, lvm2, various FS/network tools, etc.) or (POSIX) tools people coming from other distros would expect to be here by default (man pages, nano/vi…) but that are interactive ones and thus not really required for operating. Anyone knowing their stuff could just install base-system + what they actually need (e.g., I would install cryptsetup and vim, and not care about netctl, xfsprogs or lvm2). Does that make sense to you? Bruno