On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:30:24 +0200 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I often find myself using the `assume-installed`[1] option of pacman > when doing upgrades, since I want to avoid some (for me) nonsensical > dependencies to be installed. > > Is it possible to configure this in some config file, so I don't have > to remember to type it all the time? > > > > > [1] > sudo pacman -Syu --assume-installed noto-fonts > > noto-fonts is pulled as a dependency of plasma-integration, but I > don't want it installed since it takes over the default fonts (ships > an aggressive fontconfig configuration) for many websites, and looks > quite bad *for me* (on a 14" FHD display). > It's also a 90MB package I don't need. > > > Make a dummy package that provides it.
