On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > ask here: > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > install so i can remove them all later by that tag or label? on more > than one occasion, i've had to install dozens (or hundreds) of > packages, *knowing* that i would need them only for a while, at which > time it would be nice to be able to remove them all via that tag or > label. > > i guess i'm after something i would think of as a "dynamic group", > where i could run, say: > > $ sudo dnf install --tag="my_project" docker > $ sudo dnf install --tag="my_project" erlang > > and possibly other totally unrelated packages, then toss them all > later with: > > $ sudo dnf remove --tag="new_project" whoops, that should have of course said: $ sudo dnf remove --tag="my_project" rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/2ADM7XOCNLUHSB3PDQO3DD6RJQUXJ23T/