Am 26.03.23 um 09:25 schrieb David Runge:
On 2023-03-26 07:55:06 (+0100), Spencer Collyer wrote:
I'm installing a new system, and using the instructions at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks sections 2.5
and 2.6 to get the list of packages to install from my current system.
When I run the `pacman -S --needed - < pkglist.txt` part, I get a few
cases where pacman says "There are N providers available for X`.
There are multiple situations where one thing is provided by several
packages. This is also referred to as a "virtual provides", as the thing
that the packages provide usually do not exist as a package themselves.
But why are these meta packages part of the generated list? I would
expect only real packages there.
Or have you Spencer Collyer used some combined command to get the list
of installed packages?
Regards,
Uwe
