On Tue, 2020-05-05 at 14:51 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:14:05AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Does anyone know why they are all optional there?
>
> I bet it goes back to the days when you could select groups in the
> installer, and then drill down and check any of the optional packages you
> actually wanted. If they were default, they were invisible.
well, not quite. In the GUI in question, 'mandatory' packages were pre-
selected and could not be unselected. 'default' packages were pre-
selected, but *could* be unselected. 'optional' packages were not pre-
selected, but could be manually selected.
So yeah, I agree that this is likely the historical reason why the
group exists like that - with the old installer UI the effect was to
give you a list of games to pick from when installing, if you went to
the 'individual package selection' screen.
If you go back a *long* way in the comps history, there did used to be
a handful of default packages in the group. Up to F17, it had these:
<packagereq type="default">gnome-games</packagereq>
<packagereq type="default">gnome-games-help</packagereq>
<packagereq type="default">joystick</packagereq>
those were dropped in F18.
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