[2019-01-21 18:58:54 -0500] Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public:
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/
That sounds good to me but I think the name of this new virtual group needs to really emphasize its difference to the current (and future) base group more clearly. Perhaps something like `minimal-system` or anything else somebody clever than me can think of, so long as it does not include the words `base` or `core` to avoid confusion. Apart from this important bikeshedding issue, I'm all in favor of this. Cheers. -- Gaetan