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#1 2011-03-30 12:40:52
- Mr. Alex
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How to make some packages not installed when they are?
Hi!
I want to work in my system with some fonts installed and without them, switching between these two modes. I need the system with MS fonts for Web-development and without MS fonts for Web-surfing. And to install and delete them when I need to switch is not an option. So is it possible to somehow mark MS font packages as present or absent and switch this condition (maybe several times per day)?
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#2 2011-03-30 12:50:54
- Stebalien
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- Registered: 2010-04-27
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Re: How to make some packages not installed when they are?
Weather or not your system uses the fonts has nothing to with the package or package manager. You could write a script to make the fonts in ttf-ms-fonts read-only and than update the font cache.
Something like this (untested) should work:
# Hide:
chmod a-r $(pacman -Qlq ttf-ms-fonts | grep '/usr/share/fonts/TTF/'|xargs)
fc-cache -f '/usr/share/fonts/TTF/'
# Show
chmod a+r $(pacman -Qlq ttf-ms-fonts | grep '/usr/share/fonts/TTF/'|xargs)
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