On 25.04.2015 17:51, Neven Sajko wrote: > I agree that wpa_supplicant probably should not be in base, but > it's worth mentioning that base already has many packages not useful > to a lot of people - I for example don't have any of these installed: > dhcpcd jfsutils reiserfstools xfsprogs cryptsetup lvm2 mdadm nano netctl > +1 for keeping wpa_supplicant out of the base group. And just a general reminder, because it fits into this discussion: "Before complaining about missing (make) dependencies, remember that the base group is assumed to be installed on all Arch Linux systems. The group "base-devel" is assumed to be installed when building with makepkg or when using AUR helpers." [1] [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Usage