On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:08 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:09 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > > >> Sorry, I missed the 2nd half of this thread where my question above is > >> answered: > >> > >> yum remove @group won't remove any real packages or group members, > >> just the metapackage. > > > > This is true > > > >> You'll also lose the ability to track this > >> @group when new group-members appear in the repo(s). > > > > If you remove the metapackage then yes, you can't track what you don't > > have. If you have the metapackage installed then when new group members > > appear you'll get them added to your system. > > > > Just a thought: if we do not eliminate groupinstall/groupremove > behaviour, then yum could potentially yum groupremove foo and remove all > package foo "brought in", expect if they are a dependency for another > @metapkg. > > Removing the @metapkg will enable you to install @metapkg and all leafs > once, yum remove @metapkg without removing the leafs would be possible, > as well as including the leafs in the removal: yum groupremove @metapkg. > > Does this make sense? It seems like it would make more sense to do: yum remove @group with remove-with-leaves enabled. then the group remove behavior is as it was before and maybe a little better b/c you aren't removing members of other metapkg/groups. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
