<tt>Tim Lauridsen wrote on 09/11/2008 18:15:15 +0200: > He had a little discussion on irc today, about how to support yum groups >    and other similar type of groups in other backend types. > > The idea was to handle the yum groups as metapackages shown in the gui > in a special 'Collections' group. > > if you select the Collection you will see all yum comps groups as > metapackages there can be install/removed/updated. > > In the api installPackages etc are extended to handle meta packages > > ? meta package id is just like an normal package id but with a special > keyword instead of a repoid. it could be [meta] or ~meta. > > if a backend dont support this then it just dont return any members for > the collection group (GROUP_META_PACKAGES). > > Let me know what you all thinks. > > Tim</tt> <tt>Hi Tim</tt> I started to detail the use case for a PackageKit API for yum groupinstall in this bugzilla ticket:  <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435768">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435768</a>  A special Collections group / metapackages in the gui would be fine.  We also want to install the yum groups via a dbus call or an API call. -- John Walicki