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Insane-Boy

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Registered: 2006-02-27

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Can pacman..

I think to install arch and i need some information for it and some info about packman:)Can pacman install pkgs without deps or only deps ( like as gentoo portage ) ?

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Can pacman..

wiki.archlinux.org should give you plenty of info about Arch in general. However, the pacman page is still a work in progress, so to answer your specific question, pacman can install without deps if you want it to by using the -d switch. By default, of course, it will check for dependencies.

Insane-Boy

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Registered: 2006-02-27

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Re: Can pacman..

Ok I dig it about nodeps..er for onlydeps install ( without the main pkg ) ?
PS: I Checked wiki.archlinux... but i can't found required info.

tomk

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Re: Can pacman..

If I understand you correctly, you might have package A, which depends on packages B & C, and you want to be able to install B & C, without A - is that right?

If it is, I don't think pacman can do it with one entry - you would do pacman -Sy package_A, and the response would list B, C, and A for installation. You would then cancel that, and do pacman -S package_B package_C.

Insane-Boy

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Re: Can pacman..

Clear..How do you think.. is this will be a good feature for pacman for future?

tomk

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Re: Can pacman..

Personally, no - I've never come across a situation which required me to install an application's dependencies, with installing the application itself. Best thing to do is submit it as a feature request, and see what the response is.

Dusty

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Re: Can pacman..

I'd say the easiest way to do it is to install the application

pacman -S application

and then remove it without removing dependencies

pacman -R application

That'll sync the deps and app, then remove the app.

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pikass

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Registered: 2005-11-28

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Re: Can pacman..

I can hardly imagine a situation where this could be useful anyway.