On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 01:06:22 -0400 Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 07:11:32AM -0400, 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" > > > > is there anything like this? (and, yes, i can appreciate the > > possibility for conflicts when an initially "tagged" package would > > later be installed explicitly, and so on.) > > > > I see a file "/var/lib/dnf/groups.json" that seems to list > the group names and their packages. > > If that file is used by dnf, then perhaps you could > create and manage your own group. > Or maybe something like this would be of use: "sudo dnf install docker | tee docker_project_install.log" and maybe include the -a switch if you want to add something to the same log. Or a virtual machine you could delete after use? _______________________________________________ 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/DFIVP5OZODHSOYXENIZEB4RZCFIFHNWB/
