[Slapt-get-user] keywords and excluding with --install

[Jason Woodward]

Hi Philip,

> I've been trying to figure out a way to use keywords rather than
> typing out full package names, much like emerge or apt-get behavior.
> 
> The problem is, I want this to follow the EXCLUDE list, or at least,
> some exclude list. That way, I can type
> 
> $keyword.sh kde
> 
> and it would install/upgrade all kde related packages, including
> required libs and everything, but it would ignore things I never want,
> specifically the kde-i18n and koffice-i18n package series. But I guess
> --install is not affected by the EXCLUDE list. Any solutions or
> suggestions?

You can do a disk set keyword...  If you'd like to install all the kde packages,

# slapt-get --search '/slackware/kde$' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -r slapt-get --install

Same with gnome, x, etc.  


take care,
jason