On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
HI,
I mentioned this several months ago and got no response so I will post again. If there are no objections in 48 hours, the rebuilds will start hitting [testing].
FS#12890 suggests cleaning some of the packages from the base group. The goals are to remove old packages that are really no longer needed (e.g. cpio) and packages that are only needed as dependencies for other packages and would not be installed otherwise (e.g. libfetch). That will clean up the package selection list for the base group in the installer.
Here is the list of what I will do: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup It splits the packages in the base group into those staying in base; those removed from base but staying in [core]; those removed from [core]. Packages marked with (???) mean I am not sure what category to put them in. If there are no comments, I will be playing it safe with these.
Any comments before I start? Allan
cracklib is a dependency of pam so we might want to keep it in core. We can just remove it from the base group.