[packagekit] PackageKit Collections

[Tim Lauridsen]

Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 14.09.2008, 10:08 +0200 schrieb Tim Lauridsen:
> 
>> will install the metapackage 'kde-desktop'
>>
>> .yumBackend.py remove-packages no 'games;meta;meta;meta'
>>
>> will remove the metapackages 'games'
> 
> Yum will remove all the previous installed packages of the group again?
> Or just the meta package?
> 
> In apt the removal of the meta package just removes the meta package and
> not anything else.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sebastian
> 

in yum there is no physical meta package in the repos, it is a pseudo 
package containing a list of packagenames generated from the repository 
metadata. (comps.xml).
So when you install a meta package (comps group) you will install the 
packages named on the list.
When you remove a meta package the packages on the list will be removed.
the list only contains the mandatory/default packages there needed to be 
installed, not optional and deps packages. So you can remove it without 
removing lowlevel deps.

Tim