[pacman-dev] [arch-general] Package groups

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 07:05:41 EDT 2009


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis<grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it OK for a package in [community] to  be part of a package group?
>> AFAIK package groups dont exist in [community] or if they do they are
>> not the same
>> as the ones in extra.
>> eg. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15053
>> http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/gnome/empathy/PKGBUILD?view=markup&root=community
>> empathy gets to be part of gnome-extra
>
> Yeah, as far as I know, this shouldn't happen, as it breaks "pacman -S
> gnome-extra" in a way
>

I don't think it is a problem. pacman will just ask for each repo if
you want to install the packages of the group, but it is fine.


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