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jamalkamal

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Registered: 2017-07-13

Posts: 25

What is contains base and base-devel ?

Here, everything is said in the title, I want to know, is the base contain just the kernel or something else extra ?
It is possible for me to choose what I want to install from the base, or I am obliged to install it completely ?
If I can to choose, how can I to do that ?
thank you

Last edited by jamalkamal (2017-08-15 12:01:56)

dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: What is contains base and base-devel ?

It's all covered in Arch Wiki. Check it out.

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V1del

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Re: What is contains base and base-devel ?

https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base/
https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base-devel/

You technically "could" choose. You shouldn't for base-devel if you intend to use the AUR since that is assumed to be installed.

And even for base you really should know what and why you'd want to remove something, and given the question of this thread, you likely shouldn't be manipulating anything there, lest you break your system. (There are a few obvious choices like e.g. xfsprogs and oither filesystem utilities if you aren't using any of the filesystems affected, apart from those, you'd have to have a very good reason)

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fsckd

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Re: What is contains base and base-devel ?

In addition to the answers above, pacman has an option for listing the members of a group. See the manual, specifically the section on queries.

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