On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 15:27, Kevin Miller wrote: > I'm wondering if there is any way through the groups mechanism to instruct > yum to remove a particular software package. The modes for packagereq's > "type" option appear to be mandatory, optional, and default. Having a type > such as 'disallowed' could instruct yum to remove the listed package, for > example. > > My desire in using the groups interface for this is that it can be easily > customized per-machine on the server. With a 'disallowed' or 'remove' > construct I could ensure only the packages I want are installed. Actually I implemented yum groupremove <groupname> in terms of figuring out what groups could be removed. My biggest question was recursivity. Should it recurse through the lists of required sub-groups or not. I think not is the best, let the user sort out the other parts. And with regards to your particular request - that will probably be better handled by the yum-queue concept that David Christian and myself and others came up with on the yum-devel list. Kevin, if you want to hear more about it conceptually - look at the yum-devel archives or drop into physics at some point and I can tell you about it. -sv
