[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

[RedShift]

Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Now that our installer installs the whole base group by default, I'd 
> wish it would stick to the essential part. I suggest cleaning this up a 
> bit:
> 
> 
> Packages that IMO shouldn't be in base:
> - dialog
> Nothing depends on it, why do we even need it in core?
> - hwdetect
> Nothing uses it, we don't need that in core either
> - ca-certificates, lzo2, openssl, wpa_supplicant
> We need those in core, but really not in base
> - dash
> Nobody uses it by default, may IMO stay in core, but has no place in base
> 
> - ppp, rp-pppoe (plus libpcap dep)
> Only few people need those, leave them in core, but remove from base
> - tcp_wrappers
> No base package needs them as far I know, leave in core, remove from base
> 
> We should also remove all packages from base that only are in there as a 
> dependency of another package and for no other reason, as they will be 
> pulled in when needed anyway.
> 
> Packages that we should think about:
> - mdadm
> - pcmciautils
> - cryptsetup, lvm2 (plus their deps libgcrypt, libgpg-error, device-mapper)
> Those are base tools, but not everybody needs them. I'd like to keep 
> them in base, but maybe someone else may disagree.
> - nano
> Do we really need another editor in base? Let's leave it in core, remove 
> it from base.
> 
> 

You should still make it possible to select which packages you want to install.

Glenn