On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. >> > > Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty > now. :-( According to my understanding of pacman's manpage, the option --ignore should be enough to filter out what you don't want. For example # pacman -S gnome --ignore abc,def,hgi,..... I believe I've used it like that for a similar situation. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------