On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:48:04 -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:
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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.
Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty now. :-( Is there any way to use cut-and-paste to compile the list and then to copy it into a command line?