Re: F29 System Wide Change: Let's Label Our Variants!

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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> That's different from counting "we have 87 Fedora Server installs!" based
> on variant though.  I'm simply suggesting that in our statistics gathering,
> we take any measurement there with a grain of salt.  With a mutable package
> set post-installation, there are any number of combinations that can
> falsely provide what the machine is.  For example, it is trivial to install
> Server and then add KDE to it.  Now you have something identified as Server
> that is really more of a Workstation (and a KDE one at that), simply
> because the user chose to use the Server iso to start with.  Variant is an
> artifact creation-time suggestion, not a description of a system or it's
> actual usage post-install.

Oh, absolutely. I think, though, even if it's salted a bit, it's still
a pretty good indicator of intent.

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Matthew Miller
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