On 11/20/20 12:54 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
I wanted to remove all LibreOffice components so I tried the following command:

            sudo dnf remove -y @libreoffice

This resulted in:

No packages marked for removal.
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                  Architecture            Version                                    Repository                          Size
============================================================================================================================================================================
Removing Groups:
  LibreOffice

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================================================

Complete!


This was strange since the group had no packages in it.

Why is that ?

Why is there a blank group of LibreOffice ?

It's not blank.

Why aren't the required packages in it ?

From the man page:
       dnf [options] group remove <group-spec>...
Mark the group removed and remove those packages in the group from the system which do not belong to another installed group and were not installed explicitly by the user.

I'm not sure exactly what the reason is, but on my system, removing the group only removes a few fringe packages. I tried adding and removing user and group markings and now it will remove less packages than before. :-)

I've never found group remove to be really useful at all. It's most useful for installing.
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