[arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

Christian Demsar vixsomnis at fastmail.com
Mon Apr 27 22:42:35 UTC 2015


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 02:46 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:32 AM, William Hatch <willghatch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Why automatically assume everyone needs RAID, or encrypted
> filesystems? I am fine with keeping in tools for not-so-common
> filesystem types, though I will still remove them myself.
> 
> All these are things that it can be reasonably expected many many
> people won't ever use.  base should be restricted to things that
> everyone agrees should be part of an Arch system.

I agree that the base group should be as minimal as is realistic, but I
think cryptsetup belongs in base. FDE should be standard install
procedure since most modern x86_64 processors have hardware accelerated
AES (minimal overhead).

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vixsomnis


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