Correct,
I see also another solution but I do not know if it works and solve this 
problem.
Make the package named cinnamon-desktop part of the group cinnamon-desktop.
Otherwise my choice is to rename the group.
 Roelof

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>> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:10:00 +0200
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Frugalware-devel] file the same name as a group
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:47:22AM +0300, Marius Cirsta wrote:
>>> Given that you can do pacman -S cinnamon-desktop and it will install the
>>> group now I'd say it's not OK to have a package with the same name,
>>> wouldn't you ? How would pacman know which one to install ?
>>
>> Reading at pacman's code points out the opposite,
>> it checks for pkgname first, and if it doesn't exist it checks for
>> groups. Roelof probably had that issue because his repo was after
>> current in his pacman-g2.conf, and in current there is just the group
>> called cinnamon-desktop, not the package (yeah pacman doesn't handle
>> multiple repos in a good way).
>>
>> By the way the issue is still there, one can't install a group if
>> there's a package with the same name, so it's better to not have groups
>> with the same name as packages (and cinnamon-desktop group just contains
>> one package, so shouldn't be a problem to rename it).
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