On my Fedora 18 system, when I do a "yum group list", I get three lists of groups: Available Environment Groups, Installed Groups, and Available Groups. I understand what the second and third lists are. What is an Environment Group? Why is none actually installed (eg. GNOME Desktop)? The yum manpage mentions Environment Groups obliquely, but doesn't explain what they are. My googling doesn't seem to yield anything helpful. After I wrote that, I continued playing and discovered some more surprises. I installed a bunch of groups (but no Environment Groups). Now "yum group list" shows an Installed Environment Groups list: Infrastructure Server, Minimal Install. These had previously been listed as Available Environment Groups. Next, I installed Environment Group "GNOME Desktop". I'd have thought that was the default. No matter. A small number of additional packages were added. But yum list still shows "GNOME Desktop" as an Available Environment Group, not an Installed Environment Group. How come? Similarly, I did a yum install of Environment Group KDE Plasma Workspaces. No packages actually got added since they were all already there. Yet yum group list still shows KDE Plasma Workspaces as Available, not Installed. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
