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Klink-a-dink-dink

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2010-12-17

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Pacman --ignore, am I doing it wrong?

I want to install gnome and some extra packages, but there are certain ones I don't want. The wiki assures me that there will be "an option to skip these packages," but the standard

pacman -S gnome gnome-extras

gives me no such option.

So I tried:

pacman -S --needed --ignore 'tomboy,sound-juicer,nautilus-cd-burner,gnome-terminal,gnome-screensaver,totem' gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-tools gksu gamin

But the packages are still selected for installation! Am I using --ignore incorrectly?

Last edited by Klink-a-dink-dink (2011-01-05 17:01:24)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: Pacman --ignore, am I doing it wrong?

See this bug:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19854

wonder

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Re: Pacman --ignore, am I doing it wrong?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19854

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Klink-a-dink-dink

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2010-12-17

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Re: Pacman --ignore, am I doing it wrong?

That would be the issue. Darn.

Thanks!

Last edited by Klink-a-dink-dink (2011-01-05 20:58:21)

SS4

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Re: Pacman --ignore, am I doing it wrong?

For now you could specify to ignore those packages in /etc/pacman.conf ?

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Klink-a-dink-dink

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2010-12-17

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Re: Pacman --ignore, am I doing it wrong?

For now you could specify to ignore those packages in /etc/pacman.conf ?

Good idea, but according to the bug report:

Tried IgnorePkg and IgnoreGroup in pacman.conf too; they don't work either.