"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Quoting James Antill <james-yum@xxxxxxx>: > >> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> trying to clarify a couple things regarding installing/removing >>> by yum group on my fedora 19 system. first, what is the rationale >>> behind "hidden" groups? what's the motivation that some groups >>> (for the case i'm interested in, virtualization) not be user visible? >> >> The main idea with hidden is for things like "base", where it's >> assumed the user doesn't need to see it. But even that might not be >> true now we have groups as objects. > > not sure what it means to say "groups are objects" (still reading Basically if group_command=objects (default in F19+), instead of group_command=simple or compat (compat is the default in all older versions). With groups as objects then "yum group install foo" has an object representing "foo" and marks that as installed (and which packages are installed as part of it) ... without it yum works it out on the fly based on which packages are installed (Eg. if all the mandatory packages for a group are installed, then that group is installed and all the packages "belong" to it). -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
