On 10/8/19 4:34 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Really, I wish we would do as I'd wanted and transfer the "essential > packages" which aren't actually essential and were thus not included in > base.. to a new *group* called "base-extras", which would reflect its > status as being mere recommendations, while providing a convenient way > to choose to interactively install them, and allowing the Installation > Guide to transition from: Sounds good to me - do you have a suggested list of packages for base-extras or at least the list of what was pulled from the old base. Might be good for folks to add those to private install script / meta package until such time as base-extras may be available. Thanks for mentioning linux-firmware - I just added kernels and a few other items to my own, but I missed that one