Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system

(posting to general, since I can't on dev-public) On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 23:03, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote:

# Proposal

There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages, which basically makes it a hard requirement.

The current way of defining a minimal system via a group is non-optimal for the following reasons:

One of the issues that might need to be fixed is this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54887 (FS#54887 - [openssl] remove perl from dependency of the openssl package) -- damjan