[arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

[jwbirdsong]

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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.

A future update of pacman will (hopefully :D) re-introuduce/fix the
group action for installing.
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