On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:15 AM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > > Metapackages have other issues too. They make it difficult to consume > > part of a group. You either have to have everything or nothing. With > > comps groups you can install a group, remove some packages you don't > > want and still get updates to the group, with metapackages it's all or > > nothing. > > > > That used to be true, but with Recommends these days, it's considerably less > so.
True, but you wind up sort of conflating groups with soft dependencies used for other purposes, in that case. What if you want the soft dependencies of *packages* when you do 'dnf update', but not the optional packages in *groups* you have installed? How do you express that? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
