On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 07:11:32AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > scanned the dnf man page, did not see an immediate solution so i'll > ask here: > > is there any way to dynamically tag or label packages during dnf > install so i can remove them all later by that tag or label? on more > than one occasion, i've had to install dozens (or hundreds) of > packages, *knowing* that i would need them only for a while, at which > time it would be nice to be able to remove them all via that tag or > label. > > i guess i'm after something i would think of as a "dynamic group", > where i could run, say: > > $ sudo dnf install --tag="my_project" docker > $ sudo dnf install --tag="my_project" erlang > > and possibly other totally unrelated packages, then toss them all > later with: > > $ sudo dnf remove --tag="new_project" > > is there anything like this? (and, yes, i can appreciate the > possibility for conflicts when an initially "tagged" package would > later be installed explicitly, and so on.) >
I see a file "/var/lib/dnf/groups.json" that seems to list the group names and their packages. If that file is used by dnf, then perhaps you could create and manage your own group. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected]/message/DAHWURWWDYOSKDK6Y22DXY37JGBLRFIR/
