[Slapt-get-user] keywords and excluding with --install
Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org
Wed Oct 27 08:57:11 EDT 2004
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
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