Crrently, in anaconda and yum, we install language specific addons via conditional packages in comps. It's generally agreed that this sucks as an intereface, but it's what we have. There is a proposal to move this to a yum plugin for Fedora 12. Whenever a package has language-specific extensions (such as 'openoffice.org-core'; these packages would be described in some metadata), the corresponding language pack (determined via %_install_langs, most likely) would be installed. However, this has two conseqences for anaconda. 1) Plugins Anaconda doesn't currently enable them. We would want this to work in some way in anaconda, which would require enabling at least this plugin. How possible is this? 2) The actual installation experience Right now, if you pick an install language, that language group is automatically enabled. Additional languages are offered via their comps groups through customized package selection. However, that has two issues: - We never show these groups if there are only conditional packages in it, at least according to various bugs I've seen filed (oops) - If we're doing this via a plugin only, how can we better set our install languages if these comps groups don't exist? For the latter question, we may want to run some ideas past design. Bill _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
