Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 103265
Include unclassified packages in removal group view
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:12 EDT
Description of problem: Group view for "Remove Software" should perhaps have a special group for packages that aren't included anywhere else. This would make it a lot easier to keep the system "clean"; packages that aren't listed in any group (or other packages' dependencies) typically represent add-on software installed temporarily for testing purposes, or obsolete software left from earlier OS releases. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.9.1-1
Why not just use the flat view (View->Packages)?
It has too much information. Simply put, I want to single out the "bad" packages on my system. This is very hard to do among a large crowd, but if someone would round up the usual suspects for me, it might be very easy...
The problem is that these "unclassified" packages are going to also include library packages as they're not explicitly listed in the comps file and so you're going to end up with the same sort of problem in an unclassified group.
Actually, it seems to me like library packages are indeed included in most cases - they're not listed in groups, but they are mentioned in package dependencies. Also, you could always leave out the ones that are required by packages in real groups, but that would of course require a fair amount of extra parsing...
Yeah, it's pretty insanely slow to do that. And you then have to keep it updated as you remove things (if I remove A which is the only thing that requires B, I then need to have B show up in the unclassified group, etc). And you could also end up having packages disappear from the group. Ugh, this seems increasingly like the sort of thing that just can't work very well