Hi all,
Not sure if many of you know this, but I'm a bit of a UX guy, and try to make
everything I touch a good experience for new and experienced users alike.
That's kinda my thing.
As an experiment I was just installing using the "Everything" installer in a
VM and came across an interesting conundrum.
As many of you know, the Everything .iso image just has an Anaconda instance
where it installs from the comps, meaning one can install the desktop
environment they want along with whatever package selection they want from the
comps. This is all well and good, except I was noticing something.
My wife is in education, and when I went to install the "Education" group to
show her, everything worked just fine until I looked at what it *actually*
installed in addition to the DE: nothing. So, upon inspecing the group I
noticed that *every package is optional* and, despite installing the group,
nothing got installed.
I would say that, therefore, this didn't go as expected, and we can't expect
everyday or new users to open the command line and go `sudo dnf group install
{comp} --with-optional`.
I can see three solutions:
1) Anaconda installs selected comps "--with-optional"
2) If a comp has nothing but optional packages, Anaconda installs "--with-
optional".
3) If a comp has only optional components, those components should be changed
from "optional" to "default".
I'd love to hear some discussion about this.
Erich
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