comps discussion at fudcon and the future
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 15 15:26:45 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:08 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 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?
It seems like it would make more sense to do:
yum remove @group with remove-with-leaves enabled.
then the group remove behavior is as it was before and maybe a little
better b/c you aren't removing members of other metapkg/groups.
-sv
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