On 07/14/18 19:11, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > ask here: > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > install so i can remove them all later by that tag or label? on more > than one occasion, i've had to install dozens (or hundreds) of > packages, *knowing* that i would need them only for a while, at which > time it would be nice to be able to remove them all via that tag or > label. > > i guess i'm after something i would think of as a "dynamic group", > where i could run, say: > > $ sudo dnf install --tag="my_project" docker > $ sudo dnf install --tag="my_project" erlang > > and possibly other totally unrelated packages, then toss them all > later with: > > $ sudo dnf remove --tag="new_project" > > is there anything like this? (and, yes, i can appreciate the > possibility for conflicts when an initially "tagged" package would > later be installed explicitly, and so on.) >
I don't quite understand what you are after. If you install a package and it pulls in a bunch of dependencies and then you remove it the dependencies will also be removed unless you've installed additional packages which require them. dnf install erlang . . . Transaction Summary =================================================================================== Install 67 Packages Total download size: 79 M Installed size: 208 M Is this ok [y/N]: dnf remove erlang . . . Transaction Summary =================================================================================== Remove 67 Packages Freed space: 208 M Is this ok [y/N]: -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.
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