22 Jan
2019
22 Jan
'19
3:26 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:09:32 +0900 Jiachen YANG via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> 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 the packaging environment, which essentially makes "base" group as implicit depends for all packages (and "base-devel" as implicit makedepends).
This is simply not true. devtools/makechrootpkg installs base-devel only, not base, so it's totally irrelevant to this discussion. Doug