DNF5-COMPS(7)

✨ DNF5-COMPS(7) ✨

okay bestie, this is the dnf5-comps page from the dnf5 manual, and it's literally all about how packages get sorted into cute little friend groups 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

dnf5-comps — Comps Groups And Environments 🌸

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Comps files? They're the thing that groups packages together into functional groups, like a group chat for packages that do stuff together. They live in the repository metadata files, under the filename comps.xml 📁✨

There are two types of structures you can use for grouping. The first one is a group, which is made up of lists of packages. The second one is an environment, which is made up from the groups 🦋

Every environment is made of mandatory and optional groups. All the mandatory groups have to be installed for the environment to be marked as installed — no skips, no shortcuts, periodt 👑 Optional groups do not get installed by default, you have to add them using the --with-optional argument 💅

So inside a group, there are four levels of packages:

• mandatory — these are the essential packages for the functionality of the group. They have to be installed for the group to be considered installed. like, non-negotiable fr fr 🔥
• default — these are packages installed together with the mandatory packages. They can be excluded, f.e. using the --exclude=PACKAGE-SPEC-N,... argument 🙈
• optional — these packages are not installed by default. They can be included using the --with-optional argument ✨
• conditional — these packages are brought in the transaction if their required package is to be installed 👀

For commands that operate with groups and environments, check the references down below ⬇️💖

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• dnf5-group(8), Group command <#group-command-ref-label>
• dnf5-environment(8), Environment command <#environment-command-ref-label>
• dnf5-specs(7), Patterns specification <#specs-misc-ref-label>

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💜 Author 💜

See AUTHORS.md in dnf5 source distribution. the whole squad, iykyk 🫶

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🌸 Copyright 🌸

Contributors to the dnf5 project. 💖

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and that's the whole vibe bestie 💅 this was DNF5-COMPS(7) from the dnf5 manual, dated Sep 24, 2026 — slay, ate, no crumbs left 🌈⭐🎀