On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:06:27 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following > instructions provided on this page > 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ GNOME#Base'. As you can see it > reads: > > "Install the base GNOME desktop" > > # pacman -S gnome > > And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An > option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this > group." > > When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is > displayed and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install > the entire list of packages, that I would like to avoid. > > I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not > found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while > installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success. > > Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please? The best of all suggestions seemed to me to pipe the list of group files into a file, edit it and then to feed the file into pacman. However when I saw the list of 155 packages in in the file, I just gave up and installed the whole bloat. At the end all I wanted was to skip 5 packages from the group. I found the task of editing a huge list manually ridiculously tedious and decided that it would be much easier remove them one by one after GNOME is place. It's a pity --ignore option in pacman is busted, it's seems to be quite important. Thank you folks for you support.
