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TheKing42

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Registered: 2014-10-08

Posts: 40

List explicitly installed packages and groups

How does one list the explicitly installed packages and groups, where if a package was installed as part of a group, it only shows the group, not the package. The reason is I have a lot of packages, but I don't want to remove a package that is part of a group unless I want to remove the whole group.

The command pacman -Qen can list installed packages, but I don't know how to make it group groups.

For example, let's say I have explicitly installed package foo, and groups bar and qeuz, where bar contains bar1 and bar2, and quez contains quez1.

We know what this will do

$ pacman -Qen
foo
bar1
bar2
quez1

but I want a command to return:

$ <magic command>
foo
bar
quez

It is a bonus if it labels which are packages and which are groups.

Last edited by TheKing42 (2015-04-05 14:58:08)

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That question on the noobie form freaked me out. I was able to figure it out, but why do we have that?

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,611

Re: List explicitly installed packages and groups

I don't believe pacman knows when you installed something as part of a group. It knows when something is part of a group, but not how you installed it.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: List explicitly installed packages and groups

The reason is I have a lot of packages, but I don't want to remove a package that is part of a group unless I want to remove the whole group.

Why?

Maybe expac may help with some of this.