On 26/02/10 22:23, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:28:24 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae<allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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
