Re: installing by group versus installing by individual packages

"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes:

> Quoting James Antill <[email protected]>:
>
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>>   trying to clarify a couple things regarding installing/removing
>>> by yum group on my fedora 19 system. first, what is the rationale
>>> behind "hidden" groups? what's the motivation that some groups
>>> (for the case i'm interested in, virtualization) not be user visible?
>>
>>  The main idea with hidden is for things like "base", where it's
>> assumed the user doesn't need to see it. But even that might not be
>> true now we have groups as objects.
>
>   not sure what it means to say "groups are objects" (still reading

 Basically if group_command=objects (default in F19+), instead of
group_command=simple or compat (compat is the default in all older
versions).
 With groups as objects then "yum group install foo" has an object
representing "foo" and marks that as installed (and which packages are
installed as part of it) ... without it yum works it out on the fly
based on which packages are installed (Eg. if all the mandatory
packages for a group are installed, then that group is installed and
all the packages "belong" to it).

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]