Re: F26 System Wide Change: Python Classroom Lab

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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/01/2017 10:34 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the advantage here vs. providing a "Python Classroom Lab" install target
>>> in GNOME Software that allows you to turn any Fedora Workstation installation
>>> into a Classroom Lab?
>>>
>>
>> GNOME Software can't do that. As far as I know, there's no
>> way to expose installable groups in GNOME Software. Apper (in KDE) has
>> some capability for it, but the PackageKit backend (dnf backend) has
>> no support for it because it was not implemented because GNOME
>> Software has no support for groups.
>>
>
> Sure it can; you just create a metapackage that Requires/Recommends: all of the
> members of the comps group and add AppData XML and a logo to that metapackage.

Um... that sounds like a hack to work around the fact that GNOME
Software doesn't have support for groups.  I'm not sure that
suggestion is fixing the right problem.

josh
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