comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[Matthew Woehlke]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> Ok, but if group-metapkg has Requires on all the packages in the
> group, then won't:
> 
> yum remove foo-is-part-of-group
> 
> hit the Requires on group-metapkg and have yum try to remove it,
> along with everything else?

For the benefit of the list, the answer is "yes". This is why I don't 
like using metapackages this way; you can't selectively install them.

In fact, this reminds me... on my Asus cleanup project, one of the 
things I did NOT remove was the xorg-drivers package, for exactly this 
reason. This is one case where I want 'yum update' to know about new 
xorg drivers. But this means I can't remove drivers I don't need, 
because it will remove the metapackage, which means I won't 
automagically find out about new drivers.

This is actually a great example of why I would like a "group 
subscription" model; I could "subscribe" to xorg-drivers, and yum would 
tell me about new drivers, and I could decide if I want to install them, 
without being forced to install a bunch of drivers I don't need.

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