Hi Arch Community, I have scripts that will install a set of arch linux machines for me with all the tweaks I want. These scripts run pacman a lot to install bits and pieces. Usually the script will running pacman to install one package and then configure that package and then proceed to install the next (set of) packages. This works great, but a noticeable part of the run time is spent on running pacman hooks (e.g. to update the man-db and similar things). So I am wondering: Is it possible to stop pacman from running hooks during package installation? I do know when it is "safe" to not run hooks (when the system is not complete yet) and when I need to run all of them (right after the system has all packages installed that it will have). So far I run pacman with a --hookdir that contains symlinks to /dev/null named like some of the more expensive hooks that tend to take long to complete. But a --no-hooks option to pacman would be great for my use case. Is it possible to run pacman without it triggering hooks? Best Regards, Tobias
