[arch-general] Better NILFS2 Support

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:31:47 +0200
Pierre Chapuis <catwell at archlinux.us> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:58:00 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck
> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:46:33 +0200
> > Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> I don't think that nilfs-utils should be moved to the base group. I
> >> agree with moving it to [core] but not to base, because base is
> >> assumed to be installed on every computer and packages in the base
> >> group are usually not listed in the depends array of a PKGBUILD.
> >> 
> >> On the contrary I think there could be some other file system tools
> >> like jfsutils, lvm2 and xfsprogs be removed from the base group
> >> (not from [core]).
> > 
> > I think this explanation makes sense.  I just found this back:
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup
> > So indeed, it seems like the goal is to remove all non-essential
> > things (reiserfs, xfs, ..) from base.
> 
> Just for information, the opposite point of view recently came up on
> the suckless mailing-list:
> http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1007/5256.html
> 
> I prefer Arch's approach but it is probably true that a large base
> system reduces the workload of package maintainers.
> 

I don't think packaging becomes much harder when you remove optional
filesystems and configuration tools from base.

Dieter