Some jobs need many packages at once: a graphical desktop, development tools or a full set of server utilities. Rather than listing dozens of names, repositories define package groups, and dnf can install a whole group in one command. The definitions come from the repository's group metadata (often called comps), so the available groups depend on your configured repositories.
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