-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2011 08:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads:
"Install the base GNOME desktop"
# pacman -S gnome
And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this group."
When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is displayed and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install the entire list of packages, that I would like to avoid.
I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success.
Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please?
Best option RIGHT NOW is to pacman -Sg gnome and then manually pacman - -Suy pkgfoo pkgbar pkgyetanother of the ones you want from the list. A future update of pacman will (hopefully :D) re-introuduce/fix the group action for installing. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNNl70AAoJEFQ8wHCGr8hkUg8H+wQqSr3R4fjmHrm22Cy1pWm4 smLPKGrO3shdJjIRkKmTvVjBgTRoD5+7i7XReUjhe/bTXC808vjcR8xj9ajXqvT5 eDWdSXT/ANUJMp2Canc1d5mGFw9e59tp3UXOkqNNmI2xRQNbx/guNBtuqB1OEqRQ UUnbOzz2hAhddP21F9Uq5AD3mHl7kqjVe3ji9DAOEp3mPYcVZv1mtBD26ts6G9KE 9d7dSRg0KRDvnJMED+ikOpMhSsJRvellpmw2yt+hMPc2itSUrCso9dS2LuZ+wGA7 GoGI4YCHW3riuP8QP4NzGN0Q6lMGLKcJGbn8177s1W0eCt9v2+xaviySq0cAlF0= =Ac/R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----