On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Ionut Biru <ib...@archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 07/22/2012 11:35 PM, Nicholas MIller wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:30 PM, v01...@gmail.com <v01...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Why don't you want to use `pacman -Ss` for a list of available packages?
> >>
> >> Since I've yet to try the "new" method of installing, I suppose i could,
> > however i was under the impression pacman -Ss required an arguement for
> > what you are searching for.
> >
> > I usually remove acouple things from base such as Nano and
> wpa_supplicant (
> > desktop is hardwired) which with aif was quite simple since it showed you
> > everything.
> >
> >
>
> You can actually run pacman -S base -r /path/to/your/root
> then hit n when is asking if you want to install all the packages from
> the group and select exactly what you want.
>
> is simple.
>  >
>

When I finally get around to switching my last system to arch I'll be sure
to give it a try.  Thanks for the input

>  >
> >>  2012/7/22 Nicholas MIller <nick.k...@gmail.com>
> >>
> >>> where you could browse the
> >>> avalible packages
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Andrew Trabo
> >>
>
>
> --
> IonuČ›
>
>

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