Proposed F19 Feature: Yum Groups as Objects

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jan 28 16:26:01 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 16:52:18 +0100,
   Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>I have been always wondering why yum needs a special set of commands to
>manipulate groups of packages.  What would be the downside of using just
>packages that install no files (a.k.a. meta-packages) instead of groups?

Removing meta packages doesn't remove the dependencies. So you more or less 
have the same problem. It is easy to install groups, but tricky to remove 
them.


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