[arch-dev-public] 'base' and 'base-devel' group

[Dan McGee]

On 9/17/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/9/17, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> > On 9/17/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2007/9/17, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de>:
> > > > Hi
> > > > i think i forgot to add csup to core/devel it is needed for abs or am i wrong
> > > > here?
> > >
> > > You are correct.
> >
> > This seems like a good candidate for devel/, since you don't really
> > need it to run a system...
> >
>
> fakeroot too ;-)
> it's not a dependency of pacman and for makepkg to be useful you'll
> need base-devel anyway.

That kind of defeats the purpose of a split then, doesn't it. I
understand your point, but it doesn't justify it not living in devel/.
fakeroot should probably go there as well.

And although I'd support it, did we finally dump cvsup?

-Dan