On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:22:05 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 16.10.2012 14:05, schrieb Joakim Hernberg:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:51:34 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
I am fine with add wpa_supplicant, iw and crda to base if we really want wireless support installed by default.
Not that I install many systems, once installed... But I for one would appreciate having wireless support on the install media.
The install media already have wireless support. The 'base' group is about the default set of packages that are installed when running # pacstrap /mnt base Right now, this pull in these packages: https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base/ (only the one marked "Core").
I am really interested in opinions as to what we should provide here. I think that a user without wired access could write # pacstrap /mnt base wpa_supplicant wpa_actiond iw crda and get full automatic wireless support on the installed system via netcfg.
I fully support having netcfg in base (and as a default network backend in arch) because it is far better than the alternatives :) I don't think that wpa_supplicant/crda belongs in base (for instance routers don't need wpa_supplicant but may require hostapd), but iw (and iproute2) definitely has to go there as it provides some hardware management capabilities. Just an opinion... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D