On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 13:39 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 03.08.2011 09:24, schrieb Auguste Pop: > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Guillermo Leira <gle...@gleira.com> wrote: > >> If you run pacman -Ss libreoffice, you see that there seems to be a > >> libreoffice group. But when you run pacman -S libreoffice, only > >> libreoffice-common is installed... > >> > > i guess that's because libreoffice-common provides libreoffice. try > > pacman -S $(pacman -Sgq libreoffice) > > > > Yes, that shouldn't be. It's broken the way it is - either the group > should be renamed, or the provides should be removed.
As pacman will happily install multiple replacement packages, I would suggest removing the provides= line from libreoffice-common and adding replaces=libreoffice to the split packages that should get installed when upgrading.
