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esotericnonsense

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Registered: 2019-11-11

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[core] repository has dependencies on [extra], [community]

Hi all,

I've been working on reproducibility efforts and as part of that I'd like to attempt to bootstrap an Arch system from [core].

It's come to my attention during the process that [core] has some external dependencies - notably `jansson` [community] is a transitive dependency of `iptables-nft` [core].

There are 69 'external' dependencies in [core] at present, I believe:

pacman -Sl core | cut -d" " -f2 | xargs -n 1 pactree -su | sort | uniq | while read -r f;
    do echo "$(pacman -Si "${f}" | grep Repository | awk '{print $NF;}')" "${f}";
done > core-deps
grep -v "^core" core-deps | wc -l
69

That's 68 in [extra] and 1 in [community].

Is this intended? Should we aim towards a self-contained [core]?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: [core] repository has dependencies on [extra], [community]

I believe there is a bug report (or two) about this already.  Perhaps on a per package basis.

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