On Monday, January 28, 2013 10:26:01 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 16:52:18 +0100, > > Kamil Dudka <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >I have been always wondering why yum needs a special set of commands to > >manipulate groups of packages. What would be the downside of using just > >packages that install no files (a.k.a. meta-packages) instead of groups? > > Removing meta packages doesn't remove the dependencies. So you more or less > have the same problem. It is easy to install groups, but tricky to remove > them. However, the above applies to packages, too. If I install the eclipse package, which pulls in 104 packages for dependencies, there should be a way to remove the eclipse package together with those 104 packages. This kind of operations would be better to support in general, instead of hacking up pseudo-solutions like yum's package groups. Kamil -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
