Michael DeHaan wrote:
> What if we taught the yum provider to know about "yum groupinstall" ?
>
> That way you could add packages into comps.xml and reference them
> together, which would also be faster than referencing each one by one.
>
> While it would not technically be a 'package' this might be also a
> decent workaround solution to the 'yum transactions are not batched'
> problem.
>
> package { "stuff"
> ensure => latest,
> is_group => true,
> ...
> }
>
> Thoughts?
This might be nice for installs, but what happens when someone wants to
remove a group? Using yum groupremove isn't the inverse of
groupinstall. This can easily remove far more than users intend,
especially if you don't realize that groupremove isn't the exact
opposite of groupinstall.
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