[arch-general] Pacman: Installing a group that has the same name as a package?

[Magnus Therning]

2011/12/21 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> There is a package named "systemd", there is also a group named
>> "systemd".  How do I install the group with pacman?  It keeps on
>> offering me the package only:
>
>
> Have a look at this thread on the exact same subject:
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-April/019670.html

Thanks, and now that I have there still is no answer except to install
all the packages of the group explicitly (which can be aided by bash).

I resorted to a feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27660

/M

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