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
Le 22/01/2019 à 17:39, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general a écrit :
(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)
That’s a different issue, but one that we intend to tackle next: transient/transitive dependencies. Regards, Bruno
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Bruno Pagani
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Damjan Georgievski