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fluke

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From: Shaoguan Univ., PRC

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[Suggestion] About sychronize a group using pacman

[root@sgu fluke]# pacman -S kde
:: group kde:
    arts gwenview kde-common kdeaccessibility kdeaddons kdeadmin kdeartwork
    kdebase kdebindings kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics kdelibs kdemultimedia
    kdenetwork kdepim kdesdk kdetoys kdeutils
    Install whole content? [Y/n] n
:: Install arts from group kde? [Y/n] n   
:: Install gwenview from group kde? [Y/n] n
:: Install kde-common from group kde? [Y/n] n

Please notice that, i choice "n" when im asked to install the whole content of the group.

After that pacman should not ask me for individual packages.

Last edited by fluke (2007-05-07 05:55:26)

iphitus

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Re: [Suggestion] About sychronize a group using pacman

bugs.archlinux.org is probably the better place to post this, as it will be received and acted on quicker there.

James

toofishes

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Re: [Suggestion] About sychronize a group using pacman

This is doing exactly what you specified- because you did not want to install the whole group, it asks you about each individually. I'm not sure what behavior you expected here. If you only want to install a few of the packages, then you should specify them by name on the command line.

fluke

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Re: [Suggestion] About sychronize a group using pacman

Maybe we should Change the dialog to:

Install the group?
[Y/All I/individually No/Not at all]

fluke

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Re: [Suggestion] About sychronize a group using pacman

toofishes sounds reasonable. It's not a bug