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AgniPath

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Registered: 2015-11-22

Posts: 6

pacman equivalent of debiab apt-get --no-install-recommends install

While installing  debian packages I every time used the --no-install-recommends flag of apt-get. It significantly reduces number of package download while installing almost anything.

apt-get --no-install-recommends install any_package_name

Is there any equivalent pacman flag ?

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: pacman equivalent of debiab apt-get --no-install-recommends install

pacman only has "optdepends", and you must install them separately.

Last edited by eschwartz (2015-11-25 03:22:28)

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Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: pacman equivalent of debiab apt-get --no-install-recommends install

pacman -S foo

Pacman only ever installs the required dependencies. If you want any of the recommended packages (optdepends in Arch lingo) then you need to install them yourself.

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AgniPath

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Registered: 2015-11-22

Posts: 6

Re: pacman equivalent of debiab apt-get --no-install-recommends install

thanks everyone. I'm actually trying to install minimal kwin with pacman -S kwin, but it pulled many (unnecessary) KDE things.