Am Sonntag 01 August 2010 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > 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 My 2 cents about nilfs, I have added it to archboot environment some time ago. To integrate it into an installer it is plain not usable, because the kernel doesn't know it. All usual filesystem utilities like blkid etc. don't recognize it. Sure it will be an optional filesystem in the future, but it should be supported by the kernel and major filesystem and core utiltities in a sane way. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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