KDE integration/status for Workstation

[Christian Schaller]

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> From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:24:29 PM
> Subject: Re: KDE integration/status for Workstation
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> On 03/05/2014 09:20 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Stephen Gallagher
> > <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> >> On 03/04/2014 09:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>> This with my Personal Opinion hat on, not representing QA:
> >>> 
> >>> I'm not sure all/most people who actually want to use Fedora
> >>> KDE are likely to be sold on doing it by downloading what they
> >>> will see as 'GNOME', installing that, and then installing KDE
> >>> on top of it. I think this will be fine for some folks, but
> >>> there'll be a significant constituency which just wants a KDE
> >>> image.
> >>> 
> >>> In fact we might be creating a bit of a problem, because I can
> >>> see both "want KDE as an alternative desktop on top of the
> >>> Workstation product" and "just want Fedora KDE" as two entirely
> >>> legitimate and viable constituencies, which sort of means we've
> >>> just created a bunch of extra work for ourselves. I'm not sure
> >>> I see a clever magical solution to that, though. Engage brain
> >>> cells...
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I'd suggest that for the Fedora Workstation, we declare that KDE
> >> is release-blocking *as an optional component atop the
> >> Workstation*.
> > 
> > Please explain this further.  Having an optional component be
> > release blocking is making my head hurt.
> 
> What I mean is that if I boot the live media, install from it and
> select "KDE" during that install process, then having a usable system
> after the post-install reboot is blocking.
> 
> Is that more clear?
> 

Well there would be no such option though. There is no package selection planned
for the workstation install. All optional packages are meant to be installed through
the Software installer.

Christian