Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Adrian Likins alikins at redhat.com
Wed Dec 10 20:17:07 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:42:49AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > ..and with apt you can use apt-groupinstall from contrib of the apt-rpm
> > distribution, it'll use the comps.xml from your system and then you can
> > say 
> > 
> > apt-get groupinstall "some group here"
> 
> <mode oneupmanship, tongue-in-cheek>
>   But yum can merge the files from multiple repositories!
>   But we've got 11! It's one better!
> </mode>
> 
> (sorry, had to do it, too late at night and too funny)

	fwiw, up2date can do this now as well. (based heavily
on the yum code...). defaults to the system comps file, config
option to add others. 
	circa up2date-4.3.2 or so...


Adrian





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