On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:46:21 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 19/01/11 20:35, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: >> 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. >> >> > Except that is a bit broken with the current pacman... and when I say a > bit broken, I mean it does not work at all. Correct. I've tried it hopelessly too.
