[arch-general] Transient dependencies (was: Proposal: minimal base system)

[Bruno Pagani]

Le 22/01/2019 à 17:39, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general a écrit :
> (posting to general, since I can't on dev-public)
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 23:03, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public
> <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> # Proposal
>>
>> There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system
>> installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any
>> packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages,
>> which basically makes it a hard requirement.
>>
>> The current way of defining a minimal system via a group is non-optimal
>> for the following reasons:
> One of the issues that might need to be fixed is this:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54887
> (FS#54887 - [openssl] remove perl from dependency of the openssl package)

That’s a different issue, but one that we intend to tackle next:
transient/transitive dependencies.

Regards,
Bruno


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