On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> What if we taught the yum provider to know about "yum groupinstall" ?
>>
>> That way you could add packages into comps.xml and reference them
>> together, which would also be faster than referencing each one by one.
>>
>> While it would not technically be a 'package' this might be also a
>> decent workaround solution to the 'yum transactions are not batched'
>> problem.
>>
>> package { "stuff"
>> ensure => latest,
>> is_group => true,
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> This might be nice for installs, but what happens when someone wants to
> remove a group? Using yum groupremove isn't the inverse of
> groupinstall. This can easily remove far more than users intend,
> especially if you don't realize that groupremove isn't the exact
> opposite of groupinstall.
Indeed, you almost never want to do "yum groupremove" as you may be removing
things that "yum groupinstall" didn't add.
I think it would be a documentation item, with notable skull and
crossbones about it.
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