Re: design spec for the package management tool

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> This was posted some time ago.
> 
> The current s-c-p certainly does not support this spec with respect to 
> individual package selection for installation or removal.  NEither does it 
> support the network interface.
> 
> I realize that there are a lot higher priority things being done to get FC2 
> out the door.  However, can someone update us on the status of this?  Is 
> there any hope of seeing this in the FC2 time frame?
> 
> I have the need to install both gnome and kde plus a number of other packages.  
> While some of these additional packages are covered by the existing groups, 
> many are not.  Manually adding the additional packages is very time consuming 
> and people intensive.  I could do an Everything install but that brings in a 
> lots of "extra" stuff that I have no desire/need to have installed and 
> (again) manually removing these packages is very time consuming.

take the comps.xml file copy it to:   
       /var/cache/yum/somerepo/yumgroups.xml

then you can do things like:
yum groupinstall "KDE"

-sv