Proposal: Drop comps

Christopher Meng i at cicku.me
Tue Aug 11 03:11:44 UTC 2015


On 8/11/15, Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Do you think this is the way how regular users install software?
>
> I think a lot of people install yum groups.  It is a pretty useful
> functionality IMO.
>
> If meta-packages become a viable replacement for comps then we can
> seriously discuss removing comps.
> Once comps became full of meta-packages then then job would be mostly done.
> But I think more analysis of the meta-package approach is needed since
> I believe it also has known downsides.

How to remove packages pulled by metapkg completely? Remove the
metapkg doesn't work, let users undo dnf history doesn't make sense at
least from my view.

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Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

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