f10 groupinstall KDE

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> On Monday 17 November 2008 19:23:56 Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>>> In F9 I welcomed, that it was possible to install whole KDE group just by
>>>
>>> yum groupinstall KDE
>>
>> I always use/recommend the safer
>> yum groupinstall kde-desktop
>
> I'm surprised that works,
> since there is no group given by "yum grouplist" starting with kde-desktop .
>
> Assuming it does work, what exactly is the rule?
> Can one specify any package in a group?
>

kde-desktop isn't a package. It is the groupid.

There are groupnames - what you see when you run grouplist
and there are groupids - how yum and anaconda refer to groups internally.

you can use either to install a group.
-sv