[arch-general] How to install a group when a package with same name exists?

[Cédric Girard]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:32:07 +0200, Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today I wanted to install the group (xorg-apps). But there is a package
>> with
>> the same name. I did not find a way to tell pacman I wanted the group and
>> not the package.
>>
>> I ended doing this:
>> sudo pacman -S `pacman -Sg xorg-apps | sed 's!xorg-apps \(.*\)!\1!'`
>>
>> But there must be an easier way. Any thought about this?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> Hm, crap, didn't think of that when I changed the groups and replaced that
> dummy package...
>
> Anyways, I think the only way around this is by making the package
> disappear from extra.db.tar.gz on your system and then install the xorg-apps
> group. I'll get around removing xorg-apps soon, there's still a package in
> the repositories that depends on it.
>

OK.
Shouldn't there be a way to check conflicts between group and package name
then (I don't have anything specific in mind)?

-- 
Cédric Girard