Proposed F19 Feature: Yum Groups as Objects

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:49:50 +0100
Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Monday, January 28, 2013 10:26:01 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.
> 
> However, the above applies to packages, too.  If I install the
> eclipse package, which pulls in 104 packages for dependencies, there
> should be a way to remove the eclipse package together with those 104
> packages. This kind of operations would be better to support in
> general, instead of hacking up pseudo-solutions like yum's package
> groups.

Yum history works just fine for me for this case. 

yum install eclipse
<play around, decide I don't have time now> 
yum history undo last

kevin
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