Re: Semi-serious proposal: drop all optional entries from comps

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Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 06:05:16AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Some of the group stuff is also used during the compose and if things
> > aren't in groups specified but needed by say a kickstart the packages
> > won't be in certain places and will break things. I did this by
> > accident when adding zram in F-29 and not adding it to comps.
> 
> How much if this is an artifact of the compose being designed around trying
> to pack subsets of installable media onto a DVD? Do we currently do that for
> anything but Server, and is it really important that we continue? 

Given the lack of individual package selection in Anaconda, this would mean
that optional package inclusions there are solely for:
- kickstarting off the DVD
- using the DVD as a post-install locally mounted package source

There may be people doing the first. I'd have to think there are better ways
to handle the second.

Bill
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