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Hi there folks, new-archlinux-bie here ;
I've just switched from half a dozen of years on Gentoo to ArchLinux, having had a great experience with my netbook. One thing I loved about Gentoo was its package management system, portage, and the associated tools, e.g. emerge.
What I miss is not emerge blinking colors, but some of its simple verbose informations. Here is an example with installing Firefox:
$ pacman -S firefox
Targets (5): mozilla-common-1.4-1 startup-notification-0.10-1 mime-types-1.0-3 xulrunner-1.9.2.9-1 firefox-3.6.9-1
Total Download Size: 14.26 MB
Total Installed Size: 67.42 MB
So I'm wondering :
- Is it possible to know the size *per package* of the list being installed?
- Is it possible to know which one depends on which at this point?
- Is it possible to know where the package is taken from? (Testing? Extra?)
- Is it possible to know which optional dependencies I have?
Thanks very much, and happy hacking.
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I don't think it's possible with just 'pacman -S firefox'.
- Is it possible to know the size *per package* of the list being installed?
Uncomment ShowSize in pacman.conf.
- Is it possible to know where the package is taken from? (Testing? Extra?)
pacman -Sp --print-format "%n %r %s"
will show you name of the package, from which repo is it and it's size
- Is it possible to know which one depends on which at this point?
- Is it possible to know which optional dependencies I have?
i don't think there are features like these build in pacman, but you can run a 'for pkg in ...' loop.
'pactree' (and some other tools) can show you the dependency tree for the packages you've installed.
Last edited by karol (2010-09-14 02:19:56)
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