Hi, I was pretty confident that "base" packages should be listed as dependencies in PKGBUILDs, i.e. they are not assumed to be installed (as opposed to "base-devel" for build dependencies). This belief is reinforced by the fact that namcap gives dependencies error about packages such as glibc (which is in "base"): E: Dependency glibc detected and not included (libraries ['usr/lib/libc.so.6', 'usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1'] needed in files ['usr/lib/libcli.so.1.9.7']) But I could not find any documentation about this. On the contrary, this wiki page [1] says the opposite: In addition, the base group is assumed to be installed on *all* Arch systems. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks, Baptiste [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Usage