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@h8d13 h8d13 commented Dec 21, 2025

This a follow up to discussion I guess this is something that might have been a to-do but never got ticked. Discussion dates back from 2021, but is a generally valid point IMO.

We could remove it I suppose. I don't recall a specific reason for it being there other than this was one of my default packages back in ~2014. It does pull in sudo and and which, as well as being an optional pacman dependency.

But in reality, submitting a PR with a suggestion to remove it is welcome and we'll see the community feedback (if any) :)

From @Torxed originally ^^ Comment from June 2025

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Basically allows us to make base-devel something that should explicitly declared by user. As it shouldn't be assumed for non dev use-case.

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This also aligns more with arch philosophy and makes it so that build-tools/other explicitly have dep -devel.

I added some disclaimers of this change but am unsure to be 100% honest if that's how you edit them :D And since the first line of most AUR helpers is sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

@h8d13 h8d13 requested a review from Torxed as a code owner December 21, 2025 20:20

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Please don't update these translations in here manually as that will mess things up

@svartkanin svartkanin merged commit 9e7a5f6 into archlinux:master Dec 25, 2025
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@h8d13 h8d13 deleted the dot-basedevel branch December 25, 2025 22:48
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