@sullybiker holy shit base is so absurd: https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/base/
i mean, i understand that the entire point of base is purely to provide the necessary utilities to install more packages and you're not supposed to actually be using it to do anything else, but you'd think being at least equivalent in utilities to a heavily gutted busybox compile.
@nytpu In fairness the docs do say you may need other packages, but no manpages? No dhcp client? GIve me a fucking break.
@clacke @sullybiker pacman is not aware of package groups unless you explicitly look at them (pacman -Si posix), and no βrealβ packages require it, so it looks empty.
So it seems the "cli-base" package that makes things pleasant to interact with is the "posix" package.