On Monday, January 28, 2013 11:58:00 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:49:50 +0100 > > Kamil Dudka <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Yum history works just fine for me for this case. > > yum install eclipse > <play around, decide I don't have time now> > yum history undo last I meant a different kind of operation -- something like the following on Gentoo Linux: # cave resolve \!kde-base/kdebase-meta --purge '*/*' ... which removes all packages (in)directly required by kde-base/kdebase-meta only, without breaking anything else I installed in between. Also notice that kde-base/kdebase-meta is just a package. AFAIK, there is no such thing like package groups needed on Gentoo Linux. Kamil -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
