[CentOS] "core" package groups

Tue May 22 12:34:46 UTC 2007
Daniel de Kok <danieldk at pobox.com>

Hi Niki,

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:14 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Having such a thing would be great on CentOS. Currently, 'yum 
> groupinstall <group>' tends to install many things.
> 
> What do you think?

Maybe not a full answer to your question, but groups are pretty
sophisticated in that they have a list of mandatory, default, and
optional packages. E.g.:

$ yum groupinfo "GNOME Desktop Environment"
[...]
 Mandatory Packages:
   nautilus
   control-center
   yelp
   gnome-terminal
   gnome-panel
   gnome-applets
   gnome-session
   metacity
 Default Packages:
[...]

-- Daniel