Re: Feedback on the new Anaconda per product configuration

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On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 11:43 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:20 AM Adam Williamson
> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 13:44 +0200, Tomas Popela wrote:
> > 
> > > > 2. Have we thought through all cases where the variant now being
> > > > 'Workstation Live' rather than 'Workstation' might cause problems?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > What do you mean by that? Can you clarify it a little bit?
> > 
> > Well, just look at the anaconda pull request: we change variant_name
> > from "Workstation" to "Workstation Live" in fedora-silverblue.conf and
> > the export of `ANACONDA_PRODUCTVARIANT` from "Workstation" to
> > "Workstation Live" in liveinst.
> > 
> > I am not sure of the consequence of these changes, but experience
> > teaches me to be nervous any time some kind of significant string just
> > ups and changes like that :) I don't know if that string winds up
> > embedded somewhere in installed systems, for instance (and thus other
> > things might be parsing it), or if other bits of anaconda may care
> > about the variant name and haven't yet been changed...
> 
> Do dnf or gnome-software upgrades use it? Updates I expect not, but
> what determines what new things to include in an edition or product
> and what things to remove?

Package groups. So that wouldn't be a problem.
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