On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 08:39:30PM +0100, morganamilo via arch-general wrote: > > > On 27/03/18 20:34, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 08:27:16PM +0530, Sudarshan Kakoty via arch-general wrote: > > > Hello... > > > > > > I was reading "Arch Wiki" and felt curious about that difference > > > between extra and community repo. > > > > > > Some packages, such as "meson" is in the "extra" repo, whereas "ninja" > > > is in "community" repo. The interesting fact is that - is an implicit > > > dependency to "meson". So why that is (ninja) in the community repo? > > A more important question is why meson and ninja are not in [core] and base > > group given that they are build-dependencies of systemd? > > > > Cheers, > > L. > Probably because they're only make depends like you said. So in a user's > system make depends are not needed to install packages nor do they provide > any use. But I thought [core] was supposed to be self-contained, or it only used to be? Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev
