[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Documentation updates

[Allan McRae]

Dan McGee wrote:
> 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?
Yes. That is probably a better way to get around the issue.