On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:53 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:26:01AM -0600, 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. > > I thought we'd been shipping remove-with-leaves by default for awhile now. It got renamed clean_requirements_on_remove when it was merged, and it works. There were some tests around turning it on by default, but as always the big problem is very few people nobody care a small amount about an extra few K of packages left installed ... but everyone cares a lot when yum removes things they didn't predict it would remove. It's not obvious that Kamil wants that though or something more like the opposite of "upgrade_requirements_on_install", to be used to remove things on removal. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
