On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:42:32 +0200 Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:37:15PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this package brings in our clean chroots libgcrypt dependency. > > > > Until recently, gnutls had libcrypt as dependency but now it relies > > on nettle. That means that packages linked to gnutls and relied on > > libgcrypt dependency from it, will be broken. > > > > We have a gnutls 3.0.0 rebuild in progress in staging and because > > libgcrypt is in our clean chroots, everything is fine, functionality > > wise but I noticed that we skipped adding ligcrypt to dependency > > mostly because namcap and us assume that everybody have base group > > installed. > > > > Please check your packages to see if they link to libgcrypt and add > > it to dependency if they do. > > -1 to removing cryptsetup from base. Note that cryptsetup is an > essential tool for setups with system encryption enabled and is > required during boot time. It should also stay on our CDs (not only > as available package but also installed on the root-image to allow > for using the CD as a Live CD, even if partitions are encrypted; AIF > probably depends on it as well). Additionally, removing cryptsetup > from base will require users to install it manually when using > mkinitcpio's "encrypt" hook. If you decide to remove it anyway, keep > in mind to: > > * Keep it on our Live CDs. > > * Add a note to our default "/etc/mkinitcpio.conf". > > * Maybe also add some note in AIF. I agree with Lukas and support his arguments so another -1 for removing the package from the base group. -- Jabber: atsutane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ GPG-Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4
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