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first, before i start complaining about a missing feature, pacman is the best package-manager i know, and the system used in archlinux managing the OS parts and inventory of programms in it are simple and great
here the problem that brings me to this idea:
say i want to remove kde
-> what you have now to do: pacman -R kde{???}, well no actually you have first to go to the internet and have a search in the package-section to find out what packages are part of kde (kdebase, kdelibs ...)
here the idea:
what about being able to simply type
pacman -Q kde*
to find out what kde packages are installed on your system ... and futuremore being able to do also
pacman -R kde* #to remove all kde packages
#or
pacman -Rc kde* #to remove all kde and other related to kde packages
the same would be also cool for installing packages
->just to show you what happens now in pacman:
pacman -Q gnome*
Package "gnome*" was not found.
what do you think?
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The installing groups is actually already implemented in the beta of 2.6, which is in ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman
From the ChangeLog itself:
Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and
install all files from the KDE group
Not sure about the other things though, those sound like some very good ideas that should be considered and hopefully they aren't too hard to implement.
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I am a complete noob so please be kind.
But how getting the current package list
abs
then running
cd /usr/abs/kde
pacman -R `/bin/ls`
I am used a similar method to install Gnome.
abs
cd /usr/abs/gnome
pacman -S `/bin/ls`
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I think he was asking if a feature that incorporated those commands you typed in, into a one command rather than having to search for each group and go into the dir and all that. This is already implemented in the beta for installing, but not sure about removing.
Kritoke
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well it's 2 commands, but it's pretty simple.. ..
pacman -Q | grep kde
only lists packages with kde in the name.
Hapy.
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Yes, there are a couple of workarounds to install a whole "group" of packages available. Unfortunately none of them only install the bare minimum of a group, but either "everything in the ABS dir" or "anything with FOO in it's name", which may or may not be more than necessary. That's rather unsatisfying, IMHO.
But anyway, it's all in the works, so let's just wait for the next pacman release.
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the "workaround" i know, but it has a little disadvantage, as mentioned --- thanx anyway
in waiting for the next release, thanx for the answers
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