comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:09 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, I missed the 2nd half of this thread where my question above is 
>> answered:
>>
>> yum remove @group won't remove any real packages or group members, 
>> just the metapackage.
> 
> This is true
> 
>>   You'll also lose the ability to track this 
>> @group when new group-members appear in the repo(s).
> 
> If you remove the metapackage then yes, you can't track what you don't
> have. If you have the metapackage installed then when new group members
> appear you'll get them added to your system.
> 

Just a thought: if we do not eliminate groupinstall/groupremove 
behaviour, then yum could potentially yum groupremove foo and remove all 
package foo "brought in", expect if they are a dependency for another 
@metapkg.

Removing the @metapkg will enable you to install @metapkg and all leafs 
once, yum remove @metapkg without removing the leafs would be possible, 
as well as including the leafs in the removal: yum groupremove @metapkg.

Does this make sense?

-Jeroen