James Antill (illiterat) wrote,

Understanding groups in yum

Every now and again someone will will ask a question about groups in yum that amounts to:

If I do "groupinstall xyz" and then I do "groupremove xyz" why do I not end up where I started.

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bogado

August 8 2008, 17:56:41 UTC 4 years ago

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Re: More metadata could help

I agree, maybe groups should not have a installed state at all, they function only as a filter, this would naturally cut all the corner cases. If a user want he can install all the packages, but the operation of removing a group is, or at least should, not be well defined.

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