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somebody

Member

Registered: 2006-08-14

Posts: 18

Personal grouping of (installed) packages?

Hello,

General
I often get in this situation: I have to install/test several programms for a certain purpose. Having done this I want to remove the bad packages (maybe all?)...but hey, what were the bad packages?

Example
Let's say I'm a KDE User and want to try out GNOME. So I will install gnome, gnome-extras and probably a lot of other gnome/gtk applications. Now I'm unhappy with GNOME, so I want to remove everything I installed _in this context_ (= installing gnome environment plus extra apps).

Idea
So when installing packages, it would be cool to have the possibility to mark some packages with an certain identifier (context, group...). Marking several packages with the same identifier forms a group. Using pacman without an explicit identifier, some default should be used.

This way, I can exactly trace back _what_ I installed for which _purpose/context_ (if I specified an identifier...).

What do you think?

PS.: There isn't a log file for manually installed packages?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Personal grouping of (installed) packages?

There's a log for everything pacman does, called /var/log/pacman.log.

Submit the personal group idea as a pacman feature request on the bugtracker.

dimaka

Member

From: Ukraine, Bila Tserkva

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 35

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Re: Personal grouping of (installed) packages?

Nice idea:D