On Sat, 2018-09-22 at 10:26 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On 09/21/2018 06:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > ...snip... > > The old gnome-packagekit, IIRC, also parsed groups and showed you all > > this stuff. > > > > But...we don't do that any more. anaconda does not expose 'optional' > > packages in any way any more (you can only pick environment groups and > > their supplementary package groups in anaconda, now). GNOME Software > > doesn't either. > > There's one other place they are used (although perhaps not much): > dnf group install --with-optional groupname > will install the group and all the optional stuff. > > I have no idea if many people use that... I am betting it's just about zero, because it seems really unlikely that anyone wants *all* of the optional packages in a group. That's kinda why they were made optional in the first place, presumably. So I didn't mention this, though you're right that it technically exists. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
