On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 09:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 11/06/14 08:13, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Bill, Stephen, Matt, Kalev - I think we could stand to take another look > > at this. I see two immediate issues: > > > > 1) Workstation is set up rather differently to the other desktop-y > > products/environments. There's rather an overlap between the > > 'workstation-product' group and the 'gnome-desktop' group. I'd sort of > > expect the 'workstation-product-environment' env group would include the > > 'gnome-desktop' group and then another group which pulled in the things > > that we want to add that make up the 'workstation product', perhaps? > > This is how the other desktop small-p products/environments work - > > kde-desktop-environment pulls in @kde-desktop (plus other package > > groups) and @fedora-release-nonproduct , xfce-desktop-environment pulls > > in @xfce-desktop and @fedora-release-nonproduct, etc. > > > > 2) We just don't have a good story for installing extra desktops > > post-install any more. The only 'desktop' groups visible in 'yum > > grouplist' are the environment groups, but you can't use those because > > of fedora-release package conflicts. You can install the 'XXX-desktop' > > package groups directly, but these aren't visible in yum's list at all > > (I think we stopped making them user-visible when we set up the whole > > 'environment group' thing on the basis people should just install the > > env groups). So you can't install the groups you can see, but you can > > install the groups you can't see... > > Thanks for the detailed explanation..... > > One last thing, should this situation not be resolved by release date > it would seem to be something that deserves mention in the release > notes. I added it to Common Bugs already. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
