On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:15 AM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Metapackages have other issues too. They make it difficult to consume > > part of a group. You either have to have everything or nothing. With > > comps groups you can install a group, remove some packages you don't > > want and still get updates to the group, with metapackages it's all or > > nothing. > > > > That used to be true, but with Recommends these days, it's considerably less so. True, but you wind up sort of conflating groups with soft dependencies used for other purposes, in that case. What if you want the soft dependencies of *packages* when you do 'dnf update', but not the optional packages in *groups* you have installed? How do you express that? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
