On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 14:31, 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? > > > At the risk of sounding facetious: alias pacmans=pacman --asume-installed In your bashrc? Then you just need to type 1 extra letter