3D printing in Fedora

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Oct 30 01:02:10 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 13:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 10/29/2012 01:59 PM, Miro HronĨok wrote:
> >> At this point, I would like to gather people interested in 3D printing
> >> and eventually create a 3D printing SIG.
> >> Would anyone be interested and help me?
> >
> > I'm interested! I'm not sure that a separate 3d printing spin makes a
> > lot of sense, but packaging these apps up and making sure they work well
> > definitely does!
> 
> There are two other approaches that may work besides a spin.
> 
> 1. An empty payload meta package that pulls in the all the requirements
> 2. A "3D Printing" group.

By policy, 2) is preferred to 1) in Fedora. Fedora is supposed to have
groups, not metapackages.
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