5 Mar
2008
5 Mar
'08
10:26 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
OK, in the example consider xmms-plugins group. I think 100% acceptable if you want to upgrade your packages belong to xmms-plugins group (after xmms upgrade) without upgrading firefox, openoffice etc. On the other hand, if "package 1" doesn't work with "package 2", then this should be handled by dependencies (package_1 depends on package_2>=3.0) or conflicts, since pacman -S "package 1" is also allowed (-S --nonew --needed is just makes a certain type of package selection easier).
If you are just using a few packages from a group, can't you just install these packages manually? Or if you use many packages from a group, can't you just put the remaining ones to IgnorePkg?