What is a base package?

[mon-jai]

Hi.

I found mingw-w64-clang but unable to install it with pacman -S mingw-w64-clang.

What is a base package? How is it different from usual pacakges? How can I install them?

[Biswa96]

It's just a name to group the packages together.

[mon-jai]

Are they anything but just a name? Can they be installed?

[lazka]

They are just a name

[goyalyashpal]

also see:

#3457 (comment)
#3457 (comment)

use pacboy to "avoid writing long package names"