[SOLVED] Install multiple packages at once?

Arch linux has by far the best documentation I've seen at this point and while I've read through the ABS section and the PACBUILDER section, I've not seen what I'm looking for.  Because of this, if its right in front of me, by all means, please point it out.
Here's what I'm looking to accomplish:
I'm running this on a simple notebook and I'm the only user so I don't really have any configurations that need be made on the fly later on, its pretty much just set it up the way I like it and that's that.  When I run a clean install, afterwards, I perform most of the steps outlined in the wiki's beginner's installation guide such as:
install sudo, modify sudoers (using wheel group method)
install x
install nouveau and mesa
install synaptic
install dbus
etc, etc, you get the point.
Anyhow, instead of spending 2 hours (yes it takes me that long) typing pacman -S <package> to get everything installed and then spending the time to modify things like daemon array in rc.conf, etc...  is there some way I can compile a set of packages to be installed together?  for example, if I could package the above mentioned packages inside one package then just execute with pacman -U custompackage1.tar.gz that would be a good time saver especially if I reformat the hard disk and want to get everything back to my "base clean install" with all my base settings, programs, etc etc.
I really hope this makes sense and that I didn't botch up my description of what I want to achieve.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by shushu (2012-01-24 18:51:19)

The easiest would probably be to keep a list of packages you want to install, update the fresh system first and then pipe your packages into pacman like this
pacman -S $(<list)
You can back up your config files (just tar them with full path) but I wouldn't recommend overwriting them blindly, as depending on the config file things may be slightly different on other hardware or you could miss some change in upstream config (pacnew etc).
Last edited by hokasch (2012-01-24 14:27:43)

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