On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 20:02 +0000, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:05 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:59 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote: > > > David Lutterkort wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:11 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote: > > > >> seth vidal wrote: > > > >>> why do you need a 'groupexclude' option? I guess I don't understand the > > > >>> use case for it, yet. > > > >>> > > > >> For instance, to upgrade one's Fedora system without interfering with > > > >> the Java stack there. > > > > > > > > What happens to your Java stack at that point ? Will it just stay > > > > frozen ? > > > > > > > > > > That is the idea, update your Fedora system except for the Java > > > packages, which you can update selectively, from a different repo, from > > > local RPMs etc. > > > > > > > so you want --groupexclude to exclude from the update all packages in > > that group? Not exclude the group from the list of available groups? > > This is starting to be OT for this list, but wouldn't it be better if > users could just add groups into the existing mechanisms with a separate > notation, similar to kickstart ? I.e., instead of a separate > --groupexclude, allow --exclude=@java ? > I don't terribly like special character delimiters like that. -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
