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canuck

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 3

Are groups updated?

I am familiar with apt and Debian's meta-packages. Do groups behave the same way as meta-packages?
For instance, suppose I do

pacman -S groupname

On the next day packageA is removed from the group and packageB is added to it.
If I then do the following system update will packageA be removed from my system, with packageB being installed ?

pacman -Syu

pointone

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Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: Are groups updated?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62553

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Mr.Elendig

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Re: Are groups updated?

I am familiar with apt and Debian's meta-packages. Do groups behave the same way as meta-packages?
For instance, suppose I do

pacman -S groupname

On the next day packageA is removed from the group and packageB is added to it.
If I then do the following system update will packageA be removed from my system, with packageB being installed ?

pacman -Syu

no

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canuck

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Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 3

Re: Are groups updated?

Thanks for the info -- I'll try and find the time to write a wiki entry explaining this to users. People coming from apt-based distros would assume the opposite.