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kjon

Member

From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

[Wish] Pacman, exclude by group

Hi to the people, the programmers and "the overlord":

I would like to add something to pacman's wishlist, and is the feature of exluding certain packages when installing groups. For instance, when I -S gnome-extra, it installs the whole content and, the commandline, tends to get to tedious when I want to exclude a single, o maybe a couple of packages from it. Would be possible to include a feature like this one?

Thanks.

P.S. If you don't get the idea, try to install gnome-extra, excluding yelp. The only way I know to perform this is:

 pacman -Sg gnome-extra | grep -v gnome-extra | grep -v yelp | xargs pacman -S {} --noconfirm

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ozar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: [Wish] Pacman, exclude by group

You can use the --ignore option to exclude packages.

Check man pacman and see if that will work for you.

Edit: after reading your post again, I might not have understood you properly.  Is that what you meant?

Last edited by ozar (2008-05-12 19:27:56)

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: [Wish] Pacman, exclude by group

You can use the --ignore option to exclude packages.

Check man pacman and see if that will work for you.

Edit: after reading your post again, I might not have understood you properly.  Is that what you meant?

From what I understood, your answer is correct.

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dolby

Member

From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: [Wish] Pacman, exclude by group

Yelp is part of the gnome group not gnome extra. Also if you answer No in the question if you want to install the whole content you get asked individually for each package member of the group.
So heres 2 ways to do it using only pacman.

Last edited by dolby (2008-05-12 20:19:23)

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kjon

Member

From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: [Wish] Pacman, exclude by group

ok guys. Thanks a lot. I didn't know that trick.

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