Proposed F19 Feature: Yum Groups as Objects

[Casey Dahlin]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:26:01AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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.

I thought we'd been shipping remove-with-leaves by default for awhile now.

--CJD