Am 26.03.23 um 09:25 schrieb David Runge:
On 2023-03-26 07:55:06 (+0100), Spencer Collyer wrote:
I'm installing a new system, and using the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks sections 2.5 and 2.6 to get the list of packages to install from my current system.
When I run the `pacman -S --needed - < pkglist.txt` part, I get a few cases where pacman says "There are N providers available for X`.
There are multiple situations where one thing is provided by several packages. This is also referred to as a "virtual provides", as the thing that the packages provide usually do not exist as a package themselves.
But why are these meta packages part of the generated list? I would expect only real packages there. Or have you Spencer Collyer used some combined command to get the list of installed packages? Regards, Uwe