On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 12:58, Gene C. wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2004 12:47, seth vidal wrote: > > take the comps.xml file copy it to: > > /var/cache/yum/somerepo/yumgroups.xml > > > > then you can do things like: > > yum groupinstall "KDE" > > The group related stuff I can do now with s-c-p, can I install individual > packages (not an update of a previously installed package) from a gui > interface? > > Can I remove one of more packages from gui interface? > > The design spec cited in > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/specs/redhat-config-packages > looks real good but I am not sure what the status of this is. The might be > some RFE or suggestions that I would offer if this was an active effort but > why waste the time if it is a dead issue? If you run redhat-config-packages out of cvs head, you'll see some of the individual package views implemented. However, there hasn't been much progress on this in a number of months. We need to pick up work on this again and have something better for the FC3 timeframe. --Brent > > I can do it all now manually via rpm but it is a bit time consuming. There is > the additional complication of figuring out any dependencies that need to be > installed. The same situation exists for removing packages ... oops can't > remove that because something needs it.