On Wed, 2023-02-01 at 09:59 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> said: > > The difference between 'default' and 'mandatory' is that if > > a package is listed as 'mandatory', it *must* remain installed for dnf > > to consider the group as 'installed'. If it's listed as 'default', it > > will be installed by default when the group is, but can be removed > > without the group being considered to have been removed. > > Jumping in because this brings a question to mind: does dnf thinking a > group is installed mean anything? For example, let's say comps is > changed to add a package (default/mandatory) to a group - will dnf say > "a-ha, I have this group installed, I need to add this package"?
I believe it does do that on upgrades when a group is marked as installed, yes. In the past there was an issue where groups weren't marked as installed when installing from a live image (so e.g. after installing from the Workstation live, the 'gnome-desktop' group wasn't marked installed), but I believe that finally got resolved somewhere along the way, so will only affect older, long-upgraded installs now. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @ad...@fosstodon.org https://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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
