Re: [pacman-dev] Sg and Rg options

Another possibility I thought of was simply keeping "pacman -S" for groups, but with the ability to explicitly "pacman -S group/gnome". That way there won't be a problem if a package conflicts with a group. On the other hand this is very odd behaviour, since it is not semantically correct and it appears that the group is a repository. I don't think there's really an ideal solution to the problem (if there even is one, as wizzomafizzo pointed out). Adding the -g option might be unnecessary, and installing groups isn't a very regular activity. So far I don't think anyone has complained about the functionality of pacman -S, apart from this one instance where xorg was conflicting. And even so, the xorg group is in testing.