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ArchPad

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Registered: 2007-03-26

Posts: 81

Website's Package Search is Missing Meta-packages

I thought to myself "Hm...I'm installing Arch, and would like to use Xfce. Which package should I install?" and did a package search on the homepage, because my laptop's busy with its virgin # pacman -Syu. But the results for Xfce didn't list any main package, so I had to look in the wiki, and thought "Oh yes, xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. But why weren't those in my package search results?" Meta-packages should be included in package search results on this website!

Thanks. You guys do a great job!

Last edited by ArchPad (2007-07-13 14:18:33)

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Website's Package Search is Missing Meta-packages

Well, to help with your terminology, we call them "groups" and not meta-packages.  They're defined by adding a groups=('list' 'of' 'groups') in the individual package files. 

Anyway, I suppose, however, it would be handy to have a way to search groups through the web-interface...  I wonder who I can bug about that.  Hmmmm....

ArchPad

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Registered: 2007-03-26

Posts: 81

Re: Website's Package Search is Missing Meta-packages

Sorry, and continuing on the theme, I broke my Linux maidenhead with Debian and Ubuntu, so I'm accustomed to that term.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Website's Package Search is Missing Meta-packages

Heh, that's ok, that's why I let you know how they're called around here, so you could be more concise.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Website's Package Search is Missing Meta-packages

$ pacman -Sg
will show all available groups, BTW.

ArchPad

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Registered: 2007-03-26

Posts: 81

Re: Website's Package Search is Missing Meta-packages

$ pacman -Sg
will show all available groups, BTW.

Thanks for the tip, although I already knew that. :^)