comps discussion at fudcon and the future
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Thu Jan 15 15:08:39 UTC 2009
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
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