[Yum-devel] [Idea] Yum "groups"

[roeglobal@insicuri]

Hello. So recently I had to install "Deluge" on GNOME (CentOS 6.2 
CentosPlus O.S.) from sources and have had a nightmare trying to resolve 
all the dependencies, at last I quit trying to install it as I could not 
figure out how to start the daemon, anyways, the point is, for some of 
the dependencies and packages I used various rpm's and tarballs and for 
others I used yum, now, this idea came to me:

$> cat ideas
When installing with yum (`yum install <packet>') you should specify a 
group you have created (`yum groupcreate <name>') in which the specified 
packets will be installed.
This is to be done in case you only need specific packets (and 
dependencies) installed for one application but in the end it fails or 
you want to quit installing it from sources.
The group will aid you in having all the installed packets and 
dependencies over there (just the names of the packets and dependencies) 
so you can `yum removegroup <group name>'
which will prompt you if you want to remove all the packets 
dependencies or you can `yum removegroup <group name> <packets and 
dependencies>' to remove various packets and dependencies
after you have listed them with  `yum grouplist <group name>'.

The packets and dependencies will still install as usual only that they 
will receive a 'tag' or 'ticket' that will make them belong to a certain 
group, where you have them arranged
and specified so it comes easier for you to search and 
remove/update/whatever certain packages and dependency files.


What do you (developers) say about this? Any advice if there is 
something similar to this? Any quick tip to remove all the dependencies 
I installed since last 30 minutes? Except the .bash_history file, haha!

I hope you like the idea and find it useful. Take care.

P.S.: In case you use PGP here is my public key: http://sprunge.us/UNOC

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Best regards,
roe