comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[seth vidal]

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.

> yum remove group-member will remove that group-member and the @group's 
> metapackage, leaving all the other group-members there.

yep.

-sv