Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Tim Ye via arch-general
On 2017-01-05 17:37+0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:28:23 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: You could filter/block them, though. Ok, "ban" is the wrong term, it should read "block". English isn't my native language, so this could happen. However, I helped the OP, I

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:28:23 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >You could filter/block them, though. Ok, "ban" is the wrong term, it should read "block". English isn't my native language, so this could happen. However, I helped the OP, I apologized and I can repeat it: My apologies for

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 01/05/2017 11:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > This isn't the point. Subscribers could ban senders by their servers > or MUAs, without even let the sender know that they did. No you can't. You could filter/block them, though. Claiming to "ban" someone is unambiguously false representation as an

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:29:24 +0100, Florian Pritz via arch-general wrote: >On 05.01.2017 13:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban >> your email address. > >Good thing you can't ban people from this list. I could, but I'll give >you another

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Tim Ye via arch-general
On 2017-01-05 13:31+, Emil Lundberg via arch-general wrote: That was excessive, Ralf. Arch may be a DIY distro, but that doesn't mean we should humiliate and belittle people who don't already know everything about the system. Tim: I'm sorry you got that response. A "group" in pacman is an

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Tim Ye via arch-general
On 2017-01-05 13:24+0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:16:32 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote: I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group": "Install the xfce4 group." how can I do that? Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
That was excessive, Ralf. Arch may be a DIY distro, but that doesn't mean we should humiliate and belittle people who don't already know everything about the system. Tim: I'm sorry you got that response. A "group" in pacman is an alias for a bunch of packages, you install it just as if the group

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Florian Pritz via arch-general
On 05.01.2017 13:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your > email address. Good thing you can't ban people from this list. I could, but I'll give you another chance to not hit reply the next time you'd want to write a reply like this.

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:16:32 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote: >I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group": > >"Install the xfce4 group." > >how can I do that? Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.