[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Documentation updates

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 16:32:20 EST 2008


On Jan 8, 2008 3:21 PM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nathan Jones wrote:
> > ++
> > +In addition to packages, groups can be specified as well. For
> > +example, `pacman -S gnome` will install every package in the gnome
> > +group, as well as the dependencies of those packages.
> >
> Minor point, but since pacman has moved to being distribution agnostic,
> do we want to mention specific package names or stick to "foo"? This
> would look strange on a distro that didn't provide GNOME.

Valid point though, although I think real package names help people out.

"For example, if gnome is a defined package group, pacman -S gnome will..."

sound ok?




More information about the pacman-dev mailing list