On 10/8/19 2:20 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/06/2019 11:22 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote:
Yes, this was discussed over the years in several threads. The most recent being [0].
Lacking a kernel is mainly for container based environments. And some superfluous packages were also removed from the group, like an editor.
The necessary changes to the installation guide were already made [1].
All of this seems like a lot of unnecessary shuffling to what has been a reliable base install for the past decade. Why on earth no simply create a 'base-container' group to provide the install for those desiring an install to support containers and leave the traditional base group alone. The lack cryptsetup, device-mapper, dhcpcd, mdadm, netctl, s-nail, vi and which in base seems to leave a 'base' install very unusable.
Because this is not about containers. There are tons of things in the old base group which I don't want installed on my heavyweight X11 desktop which is used for media consumption. I don't need netct (because networkmanager is love), s-nail (unuseful in practice) or vi (symlink to vim) as a baseline fact. I don't need cryptsetup or device-mapper if I'm not opting into an encrypted filesystem, but this does not matter as I cannot get rid of either one due to systemd performing shared library links to libcryptsetup.so and therefore also having a depends+=('cryptsetup') I do not need mdadm or lvm2, because I don't use RAID or lvm, so why do you think my system is unusable without it? Note: in practice, both are required by libblockdev, which means if you use udisks2 you have both installed anyway. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User