On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:46:33 +0200 Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think that nilfs-utils should be moved to the base group. I > agree with moving it to [core] but not to base, because base is > assumed to be installed on every computer and packages in the base > group are usually not listed in the depends array of a PKGBUILD. > > On the contrary I think there could be some other file system tools > like jfsutils, lvm2 and xfsprogs be removed from the base group (not > from [core]). I think this explanation makes sense. I just found this back: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Base_Cleanup So indeed, it seems like the goal is to remove all non-essential things (reiserfs, xfs, ..) from base. > They probably should be automatically installed if a partition is > formatted with one of these filesystems by AIF. But usually people who > are using these filesystems know what they are doing and know that > they have to select these packages for installation. Actually it's fairly trivial to "preselect" those packagas based on the filesystems used during the filesystem step. I believe some of it is already implemented in aif. Dieter
