I quickly wrote these lines as a workaround to ignore issue I was having #!/bin/bash # Group name group_pkgs='xorg-drivers' # Package to ignore ignore_pkg='xf86-video-intel-sna' # Load up xorg_pkgs with group packages less ignored driver xorg_pkgs=$(pacman -Sg xorg-drivers | \ sed -e "s/$group_pkgs //g" -e "/${ignore_pkg}/d") # Simply a way to check variable is loaded echo $xorg_pkgs You can simply load up $xorg_pkgs into mkarchiso in build script or push output to a file your choice. Have added a bug report to Arch Bugs but not holding my breath.... MrG