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

[Allan McRae]

On 26/02/10 22:23, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:28:24 +1000
> schrieb Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>:
>
>> I mentioned this several months ago and got no response so I will
>> post again.  If there are no objections in 48 hours, the rebuilds
>> will start hitting [testing].
>>
>> FS#12890 suggests cleaning some of the packages from the base group.
>> The goals are to remove old packages that are really no longer needed
>> (e.g. cpio) and packages that are only needed as dependencies for
>> other packages and would not be installed otherwise (e.g. libfetch).
>> That will clean up the package selection list for the base group in
>> the installer.
>>
>> Here is the list of what I will do:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup
>> It splits the packages in the base group into those staying in base;
>> those removed from base but staying in [core]; those removed from
>> [core].  Packages marked with (???) mean I am not sure what category
>> to put them in.  If there are no comments, I will be playing it safe
>> with these.
>>
>> Any comments before I start?
>
> cpio is probably not necessarily needed by the average user, but as far
> as I know it's needed to uncompress or read the content of the initrd
> (e.g. xzcat kernel26.img | cpio -t), which sometimes can be necessary
> for debugging purposes. So I'm not sure if cpio must be kept in the
> base group but it should stay in [core].

I do not see that as a reason for it to stay in [core].  You probably 
would also want gdb for debugging and that is not in [core].

Allan