2007/7/11, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On 7/11/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/11/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Am Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:37 +0300 schrieb "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com>:
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.
And what Roman already said in the initial email: "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)."
Sooooo..... Can someone with access to Current please create dummy base package or group? ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)