On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx > 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 <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/%0AGNOME#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? > You can just go ahead and do this, `pacman -Sg gnome | awk '{ print $2 }' > tempfile`, then edit that tempfile and delete the packages that you don't want, then do `pacman -S $(cat tempfile)`. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
