On 1/21/19 6:53 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote:
I agree with this package list. It's missing mkinitcpio though.
No it is not, mkinitcpio is definitively not needed. It's only required in order to execute the pacman hooks for a linux kernel package (or do so manually). And core/linux is not required to use archlinux, although it is required to boot it on bare metal. The most recent version of my PKGBUILD draft for this "base-system" PKGBUILD (which I shared with Levente during the planning stages of this proposal) can be found here: https://paste.xinu.at/KZmYqQwIO/ I've actually listed optdepends=('linux: bare metal support') And IMO that is exactly where mkinitcpio belongs -- as a hard dependency for any package which intends to implement a kernel for booting to bare metal. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User