Do not install base-devel by default #4022
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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.
From @Torxed originally ^^ Comment from June 2025
Basically allows us to make
base-develsomething that should explicitly declared by user. As it shouldn't be assumed for non dev use-case.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