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
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