On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 05:04 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
James Antill wrote:
- There's no way to do the groupremove operation, easily.
The groupremove operation is completely and utterly broken by design anyway:
It doesn't act perfectly, in all cases, no. [...]
Try groupremoving gnome-desktop on a system with both GNOME and KDE installed and watch it try to remove half of KDE while leaving half of GNOME sitting there wasting space.
Right, "gnome-desktop" is a typical group. Silly me.
And it just CANNOT be fixed.
You mean apart from using yum from rawhide and doing:
yum remove @gnome-desktop --setopt=groupremove_leaf_only=true
...or groups as objects, or...
The only (mostly) reliable way to undo a groupinstall is yum history. And even that will only work as expected if the group was recently installed.
So groupremove _has_ to do the same thing as an undo of a groupinstall to not be considered "utterly broken by design"? I guess that means plain remove is also "utterly broken by design"?
Wait ... don't answer here ... if you want to troll/rant, feel free to send me personal email where I'll happily ignore it. Subjects like "yum should be faster than rpm" or "why don't we just move to apt/smart/pacman/image-packaging-system" are probably your best bang for the buck.