Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 15:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > As part of https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReworkPackageGroups, I've > > been working on redoing some of the groups that make up installation choices > > in anaconda. The idea is to offer a simpler interface, where the user simply > > selects which environment they want to run in, plus options for that > > environment. > > From what I can see a lot of this is shuffling around where metadata > lives and how it's presented, which sounds fine, but is kind of > uninteresting. Yeah, it's more interesting in what it allows us to use (have spins be more consistent across install methods, and less tied to each other), than it is directly for the user. > However, the "yum is changed so that persistent groups are enabled by > default" seems to me to have more significant ramifications. Does it > mean that we no longer need to add artificial dependencies just to > ensure that new packages are pulled in on upgrades, for example? That's the idea, but... > Or do we still need to do that to handle the case where the user is > upgrading a pre-persistent-groups system? ... there's going to be a lot of these users. Bill -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
