Re: [arch-dev-public] base group

On 7/11/07, Andreas Radke wrote:

Am Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:37 +0300 schrieb "Roman Kyrylych" :

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Hi!

IIRC this was mentioned some time ago, but I don't remember why it was not implemented. Why don't we have the "base" package group? IMO it would be nice if user would be able to do pacman -S base to get all base packages installed (e.g. in chroot or when installing from another distro).

the installer recommends to install every pkg of "base". but it's still useful to no install everything if you know what you are doing (deselecting not used filesystem tools, only one editor, no pcmcia and more). a metapkg isn't needed as i cannot see any point where a user later would install it again.

Andy

By far the easiest way to make a chroot would be to have one command, however: pacman --root <path> --dbpath <path> -S base That is where I see the advantage. -Dan