[arch-dev-public] base group

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/7/11, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> On 7/11/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/11/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > Am Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:37 +0300
> > > schrieb "Roman Kyrylych" <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > IIRC this was mentioned some time ago, but I don't remember why it was
> > > > not implemented.
> > > > Why don't we have the "base" package group?
> > > > IMO it would be nice if user would be able to do pacman -S base to get
> > > > all base packages installed (e.g. in chroot or when installing from
> > > > another distro).
> > > >
> > >
> > > the installer recommends to install every pkg of "base". but it's still
> > > useful to no install everything if you know what you are doing
> > > (deselecting not used filesystem tools, only one editor, no pcmcia and
> > > more). a metapkg isn't needed as i cannot see any point where a user
> > > later would install it again.
> > >
> > > Andy
> >
> > By far the easiest way to make a chroot would be to have one command, however:
> > pacman --root <path> --dbpath <path> -S base
> >
> > That is where I see the advantage.
>
> And what Roman already said in the initial email:
> "IMO it would be nice if user would be able to do pacman -S base to
> get all base packages installed (e.g. in chroot or when installing
> from another distro)."


Sooooo.....
Can someone with access to Current please create dummy base package or group?
;-)

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)