Re: Why is the LibreOffice group blank ?

[Sreyan Chakravarty]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 6:15 AM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:

>  Have you had the chance to read the dnf man page?
>
>  Each <spec> can be either a <package-spec>, which specifies
>  a package directly, or a @<group-spec>, which specifies an (environ‐
>  ment)  group which contains it.
>
>  
I did, but it is not clear (at least to me) about where to use the @ symbol
and where not to. Which was kind of my point/question.

Any ways this does not still explain why the entire LibreOffice group is
blank, and why I can't remove LibreOffice cleanly in one go via the group
that it is supposed to be a part of.


>  You can use....
>
>  dnf group list
>
>  to get a list of the installed groups
>
>  
The LibreOffice group does exist for me, but alas, it is empty.

I actually don't use the @form of group-spec as I forgot (or maybe never
>  knew) how to get a list
>  of the corresponding @forms.  I just use the full name in quotes.
>  
I think this is the more unambiguous approach to take.

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Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty