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tsagas

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Registered: 2009-04-19

Posts: 17

Excluding packages from Gnome installation

Hello to all,

I have a fresh Arch Linux with Xorg installed. I want to install Gnome but not the entire Gnome applications universe... The Arch Wiki says that after you issue "pacman -S gnome" you will be given a list of packages AND the option to exclude some of them from the installation. But this is not the case... What you get is a simple y/n prompt. By selecting "no" the installation is aborted. By selecting "yes" the whole gnome meta-package is installed. I'm assuming the same thing will happen with "pacman -S gnome-extras" ?

Is there any workaround? I don't want to be removing one-by-one all the unneeded software, like with opensuse or ubuntu.

Thanks in advance

Tuxargon

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From: Algeria

Registered: 2009-12-31

Posts: 12

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Re: Excluding packages from Gnome installation

Try this : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 13#p784113

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Sorry for my bad English.

tsagas

Member

Registered: 2009-04-19

Posts: 17

Re: Excluding packages from Gnome installation

Thanks for your reply. As I can see it is an already reported bug. Major bug actually...