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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org