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QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

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Uninstall most of a group

When I set up my system, I was lazy and just installed the entire group "xorg-drivers" Now, I want to uninstall most of the packages in that group, but without typing out each and every package I don't need on a line. In the past, I would have done a pacman -Rf xorg-drivers, then re-installed the individual packages I needed on the next. However, without the force option anymore, I can't do that as xorg depends on one of the items.

Any suggestions, or just should I just start typing?

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falconindy

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From: New York, USA

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Re: Uninstall most of a group

$ pacman -Qgq xorg-drivers > pkglist # edit pkglist to remove the items you want to keep
# pacman -R - < pkglist

If you get dependency errors, remove less/more by editing the list or cautiously using -Rs.

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QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

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Re: Uninstall most of a group

Awesome. I should have thought of that, but I'd forgotten that pacman can take a file as input.

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