On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:59:30 -0500, Sam Stuewe wrote:
Honestly, I think an idea world would put pacman, linux, systemd, bash, a few bootloaders, efi-related utilities and their dependencies in `base` and essentially nothing else.
I guess _core_ should be similar to FreeBSD's world, including "the kernel, core system binaries, libraries, programming files, and built-in compiler". Basic software that gets more attention not to break by updates and more attention regarding security. Arch might not need a compiler for _base_, because building from ABS isn't needed, since we can install binaries using pacman. As somebody already pointed out, there are base and base-devel and even dash is exclude from both, so those groups already are very small. IMO base could include everything from core.