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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

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Confusion about a few packages marked explicitly vs dependency install

This is just _one_ example of what i'm asking about;
On my machine, "binutils"  is installed because it's a dependency on another package, and "attr" is apparently explicitly installed.
Both belong to the "base" package group and since i have "base" (who doesn't) installed, why do the install reasons differ?

I mean, if i install "base" shouldn't every package in base be marked as explicitly installed?

Last edited by pelle.k (2008-05-25 17:05:13)

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dolby

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Re: Confusion about a few packages marked explicitly vs dependency install

Hmm you are right its the same here. Weird, moreover since the only package that requires binutils is gcc.

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dolby

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Re: Confusion about a few packages marked explicitly vs dependency install

which iso did you use to install?

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: Confusion about a few packages marked explicitly vs dependency install

I mean, if i install "base" shouldn't every package in base be marked as explicitly installed?

Yes if you do pacman -S base the first time. But usually you don't do that, you just use the iso, so it depends on what list of packages the iso explicitly installs.

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dolby

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Re: Confusion about a few packages marked explicitly vs dependency install

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10499

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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

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Re: Confusion about a few packages marked explicitly vs dependency install

Yeah, i used the latest 2008.04-RC.
Ok, thanks for confirming this. I'll continue this on the bugtracker (thanks dolby!)

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