On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay guys, thanks for the info. > > I didn't know about and hadn't thought about all the packages in the base > group being mandatory (or at least "expected" by other packages). > > > And yes, I find installed automatically, packages for: > -ext > -jfs > -reiser > -xfs > and who knows what else . . . > > Even though I also am only using ext4 (and a swap partition). > Yes, and those aren't the only things installed in the base group that aren't really necessary. -nano -vi -mdadm -lvm2 -cryptsetup -s-nail -dhcpcd -netctl -licenses It is what it is. FWIW -- I don't think they are "expected", base is a guideline and other packages should not be making assumptions (and usually don't). I think it could reasonably be expected that one has things like bash/sed/tar installed, but anything likely to be manually removed from base I expect to be listed in package dependencies. -- Eli Schwartz
