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As the subject says is any package able to add itself to any group. From my understanding the groups a package belongs to is part of it's PKGBUILD. If this is true what is stopping anyone from adding random packages to groups like base-devel?
Last edited by TylerMackJ (2022-07-07 00:06:03)
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If you want to add a random package to base-devel on your machine no-one is going (to be able) to stop you...
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Does this mean that package groups are audited by the mirror?
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No, it's part of the package database.
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No, it's part of the package database.
Unless I misunderstand I thought the mirrors are able to "choose" what packages are core, extra,... etc. Official mirrors, though, are in agreement with one another.
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Technically they could, but they would quickly get removed from the mirrorlist. They're supposed to sync the databases exactly as they are. It all comes from a central mirror controlled directly by the devs/tus.
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Technically they could, but they would quickly get removed from the mirrorlist. They're supposed to sync the databases exactly as they are. It all comes from a central mirror controlled directly by the devs/tus.
Thank you this makes sense!
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