[Yum] installing by group versus installing by individual packages

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting James Antill <james-yum at and.org>:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
>>   trying to clarify a couple things regarding installing/removing
>> by yum group on my fedora 19 system. first, what is the rationale
>> behind "hidden" groups? what's the motivation that some groups
>> (for the case i'm interested in, virtualization) not be user visible?
>
>  The main idea with hidden is for things like "base", where it's
> assumed the user doesn't need to see it. But even that might not be
> true now we have groups as objects.

   not sure what it means to say "groups are objects" (still reading
and catching up a *lot* on yum as i switch back to fedora), but it
would seem that there's little rationale for virtualization (and
possibly others) being hidden -- seems like a perfectly respectable
group that people might decide they want or not.

   anyway, back to reading ... more questions coming.

rday