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

Pierre Chapuis catwell at archlinux.us
Sat Feb 27 08:08:35 EST 2010


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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:40:27 +0200, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:

> The following packages are questionable:
> * diffutils - why it should be on every system?
> * gawk - why it should be on every system?
> [...]
> * mailx
> [...]
> * vi - ok, no bikeshed thing here, but there's nano for base

Those are required for Single UNIX Specification v3 conformance. However
I think Arch Linux doesn't conform for other reasons anyway, and I
support their removal from the base group. I always remove the 2 latter
by hand after installing.

-- 
catwell


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