On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Chris Lumens <clumens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > This simply provides a new task in the task list with all the groups that >> > make up the current "default desktop" installation. To get a minimal >> > install, all you'd need to do is uncheck this and any other default tasks. >> >> So what happens if I select Office without the "General Internet >> Usage" task? Aside from the obvious of "shoot the user in the >> foot"... > > Ah, good, just the person I was hoping would weigh in on this issue! I feel the love :-) > If you only check Office without General, on the customize screen you > will only see the Office task's groups selected. However, I believe the > package dependencies will then pull in all the required packages, which > should cover most of the desktop stuff. It'll pull in some required stuff, but not necessarily things like, say, "an X server" I believe. So things will run, but it's not necessarily that useful. > There's a lot of "should" and "most" in that last sentence, though. It > seems like General should also pull in all of Office, and now we're > talking task dependencies, and that's pretty awful. Yep, that's why I've closed the bug WONTFIX a bunch of times in the past ;) I honestly *don't* have a great answer aside from "take out interactive package selection altogether". But that continues to prove unpopular. - Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
