On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:30:24 +0200 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
I often find myself using the `assume-installed`[1] option of pacman when doing upgrades, since I want to avoid some (for me) nonsensical dependencies to be installed.
Is it possible to configure this in some config file, so I don't have to remember to type it all the time?
[1] sudo pacman -Syu --assume-installed noto-fonts
noto-fonts is pulled as a dependency of plasma-integration, but I don't want it installed since it takes over the default fonts (ships an aggressive fontconfig configuration) for many websites, and looks quite bad *for me* (on a 14" FHD display). It's also a 90MB package I don't need.
Make a dummy package that provides it.