[pacman-dev] documenting the base-devel split

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/11/8, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On Nov 8, 2007 1:08 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 8, 2007 1:03 PM, Jonathan <eyeswide at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I haven't been able to find any arch documentation (besides the mailing
> > > lists) on the splitting of base into base and base-devel groups. The
> > > main need is for people to understand the need to install the base-devel
> > > group before building packages. the makepkg man page seems like a good
> > > place for this.
> >
> > That's probably a good idea - would you be willing to write it up?
> > It's documentation so I'm sure you could probably just propose a
> > paragraph here and I can copy-pasta it into the man page.
>
> Documentation in the manpages shouldn't be Arch Linux specific.
>

It could be documented in our official Install Guide in Pacman section.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)