Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Allan McRae
On 11/10/22 21:00, Levente Polyak wrote: On 10/11/22 12:05, David Runge wrote: - preserve base-devel as a group there I'm actually currently working on moving it to a meta-package as well. We didn't do it when introducing `base` as we never really changed it. Now we did with debugedit and face

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
> > In the past there was a rule to get a basic but usable system up with > > base group and core repo (=cd iso image). > > On the installation medium we are able to define an arbitrary list of > packages. For a long time the editor of choice seems to have been vim. > > Do you have a link to anythi

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread David Runge
On 2022-10-11 16:30:42 (+0200), Andreas Radke wrote: > How comes? Nano is actually pretty well maintained and has seen lots > of updates over the past years. See Yep, that's why I wrote, that it is at least still somewhat maintained (vi does not seem like it). :) My rationale would be, that text e

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:05:44 +0200 schrieb David Runge : > Hi all, > > we need to do a bit of [core] repository cleanup. > Why do you think so? I can only imagine a cleanup where we need to drop a fully unmaintained and unneeded package to avoid security risks. And we may need to constantly

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:14:12 +0200 schrieb David Runge : > I'd argue neither needs to be in core. However, nano at least is still > somewhat maintained. How comes? Nano is actually pretty well maintained and has seen lots of updates over the past years. See https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread arch
I'm of the opinion that at least one well-maintained text editor should remain in core - my vote would be for nano, as vi has been outclassed by its clones and ed doesn't see much use nowadays. I have no personal issues with the other suggested cleanup items. Best, Campbell --- Original M

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread David Runge
Hey Tobias, On 2022-10-11 12:53:25 (+0200), Tobias Powalowski wrote: > here my short additions: > - syslinux: > is dead and not used in our projects anymore I added it to the list. Syslinux itself is still somewhat useful if one doesn't want to deal with grub on legacy boot systems. > - nano vs.

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread David Runge
On 2022-10-11 13:00:57 (+0200), Levente Polyak wrote: > I'm actually currently working on moving it to a meta-package as well. > We didn't do it when introducing `base` as we never really changed it. > Now we did with debugedit and face small inconveniences and we are > better of to have it as meta

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Levente Polyak
On 10/11/22 12:05, David Runge wrote: - preserve base-devel as a group there I'm actually currently working on moving it to a meta-package as well. We didn't do it when introducing `base` as we never really changed it. Now we did with debugedit and face small inconveniences and we are better of

Re: [core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread Tobias Powalowski
> If you have more packages, that should not be in [core] anymore or > should be moved to it, please add them to the list(s). Thanks David, here my short additions: - syslinux: is dead and not used in our projects anymore - nano vs. vi one editor could be enough, I can live with both. - reiserfspr

[core] cleanup

2022-10-11 Thread David Runge
Hi all, we need to do a bit of [core] repository cleanup. In this MD [1] (publicly visible readonly link [2]) we have a list of packages that should leave [core], some maybes that need discussion before moving them and some that should be moved to [core] from the other repositories. If you have