(posting to general, since I can't on dev-public) On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 23:03, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > # Proposal > > There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system > installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any > packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages, > which basically makes it a hard requirement. > > The current way of defining a minimal system via a group is non-optimal > for the following reasons: One of the issues that might need to be fixed is this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54887 (FS#54887 - [openssl] remove perl from dependency of the openssl package) -- damjan