On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 02:41:23PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > > Hi . > > What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the > xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the > xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati > sirrus trident and more > > I know about adding files at the command line --exclude and about > entering a list in pacman.conf but is there a way that is quicker. You probably installed the xorg-drivers group. pacman doesn't fetch those drivers if you instruct it to install a specific one.