[2019-03-18 00:25:09 +0100] Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public: > Assuming we implement this group or meta-package as something of policy, i.e. > every repository package is assumed to depend on it. This would then make > base similar to base-devel, except for depends() instead of makedepends(). > > With base-devel, we've always encouraged people to remove the makedepends > already in that group. Would we do the same for "base", i.e. remove > dependencies that, beforehand, were explicit?
We've been doing this for as long as I can remember. Only 156 packages have glibc in their depends array. Cheers. -- Gaetan
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