On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:46 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:42:05 -0800 > > Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Perhaps the only good solution to that is to have two groupremoves... > >> one that removes the *unique group members* and one that removes the > >> *entire group*. I cannot think of any reason there would be the need > >> for additional interpretations of groupremove. > > > > yum groupremove --all or --force > > > > groupremove by default removes entities that are only found in said > > group and not in other groups or required by things in other groups. This is far from trivial, and what happens when you do: yum groupremove 'X Window System' ...does that remove system-config-printer? I'd assume not from the above ... at which point dbus-x11 + pygtk2 + etc. are all kept, at which point what is groupremove buying you over just using yum remove and maybe yum groupinfo? > > Least surprise. --all or --force will remove all entities in said > > group regardless of overlapping members. Well yum doesn't do positional options atm. so you'd need much bigger option names ... and you assume the desired normal behaviour would be to not remove what the user has explicitly asked to be removed, which seems wrong. > I think that would be a good change to make, and would certainly be a better > safeguard for users only working in an interface to yum who might not understand > groups overlap at all. > > A new user would expect that when they install a group, whatever got added will > be what goes away when they remove the group. Which the above _doesn't_ do, if indeed the user expects that (which I don't think is true). > The group install and group > remove are reasonably expected to be inverses. An additional 'yeah I want to > nuke it' flag would be great for this. If I start with no packages and do: yum groupinstall Foo yum groupremove Foo ...then I _currently_ end up where I started, so they are _currently_ inverses of each other in that theoretical model ... and the above change would break that. The problem comes when you start with package set X1 (some of which are in the group you are installing) and groupinstall takes you to the superset X2, groupremove cannot currently get you back to X1 (even if you assumed nothing changed in between), without more data and significantly more work. In short it seems much easier to just make sure gpgme isn't explicitly listed in the KDE group. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
