On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:58:00 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Just for information, the opposite point of view recently came up on the suckless mailing-list: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1007/5256.html I prefer Arch's approach but it is probably true that a large base system reduces the workload of package maintainers. -- Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis
