On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 22:42 +1000, Robbie Smith wrote: > Alternatively, add the location of the original desktop file to > pacman.conf NoUpgrade and pacman won't update it. IIUC without the first "/" of the path [1]. JFTR the package itself, including an unwanted file, but containing other files too, still will be upgraded, just the unwanted file won't be upgraded? I for example haven't GNOME installed, but from time to time I get [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls /usr/share/xsessions/gnome* /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop.disabled /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop.disabled to remove or "disable" them all the times is annoying. So I have to add usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop to NoUpgrade, without a "/" at the beginning [1]? [1] "NoUpgrade = file … All files listed with a NoUpgrade directive will never be touched during a package install/upgrade, and the new files will be installed with a .pacnew extension. These files refer to files in the package archive, so do not include the leading slash (the RootDir) when specifying them. Shell-style glob patterns are allowed." - https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html
