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frankly, i was intrigued, frustated and finally installed arch on laptop. learnt a lot. frequently long time arch users say gui installers install lot of unnecessary packages. do we have statistics about how many extra packages compared to standard install for a particular or test desktop or laptop? |
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Yepp, that's coming in And whatever packages are needed for the file system chose, for But in general I try to keep it as close to "absolutely the only ones that's needed for a functioning system", with the exception where it's very optional things such as profiles that are in the best interest of user friendliness. Those tend to hog a log of packages in general, like gnome and all it's "basic needs" are like ~8G or something :) Tl;dr: |
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Yepp, that's coming in
v2.2.0
. But the packages are these:And whatever packages are needed for the file system chose, for
btrfs
that would bebtrfs-progs
for instance.And if you choose a profile, say
awesome
the additional ones would be:But in general I try to keep it as close to "absolutely the only ones that's needed for a functioning system", with the exception where it's very optional things such as profiles that are in the best interest of user friendliness. Those tend to hog a log of packages in general…