Base package

Current situation

base is a group, with a lot of stuff inside some people assumed it installed, some don’t: as it’s a group, this is difficult

Proposal

New base meta-package (assumed installed): being a package means we can add/remove things later and propagate that : https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/base See https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2019-January/029435.html and https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2019-March/029491.html for included packages and further discussion Push the package to [core] Done Create a TODO list for base group removal Sent Update documentation install base and linux in the default install Installation Guide edited https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/linux&id=f1c97a49a09b0fd8d7d1c3f6e8e635ef45974373 explicit base as a mandatory package News item Sent

For later

Remove ‘bzip2’ ‘gzip’ ‘xz’ : they either are dependency for something else (e.g. pacman) or not useful by themselves: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64028 Remove network tools, pciutils ? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64029, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64030

News post:

Following recent mailing list discussions, we have decided to replace the base group by a metapackage of the same name. We advise users to install this package, as it is effectively mandatory from now on. Users requesting support are expected to be running a system with the base package.

We have decided to replace the base group by a metapackage of the same name, we advise users to install this package (pacman -Syu base), as it is effectively mandatory from now on. Users requesting support are expected to be running a system with the base package.