Adding GNOME ....

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 09:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/06/14 08:13, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Bill, Stephen, Matt, Kalev - I think we could stand to take another look
> > at this. I see two immediate issues:
> >
> > 1) Workstation is set up rather differently to the other desktop-y
> > products/environments. There's rather an overlap between the
> > 'workstation-product' group and the 'gnome-desktop' group. I'd sort of
> > expect the 'workstation-product-environment' env group would include the
> > 'gnome-desktop' group and then another group which pulled in the things
> > that we want to add that make up the 'workstation product', perhaps?
> > This is how the other desktop small-p products/environments work -
> > kde-desktop-environment pulls in @kde-desktop (plus other package
> > groups) and @fedora-release-nonproduct , xfce-desktop-environment pulls
> > in @xfce-desktop and @fedora-release-nonproduct, etc.
> >
> > 2) We just don't have a good story for installing extra desktops
> > post-install any more. The only 'desktop' groups visible in 'yum
> > grouplist' are the environment groups, but you can't use those because
> > of fedora-release package conflicts. You can install the 'XXX-desktop'
> > package groups directly, but these aren't visible in yum's list at all
> > (I think we stopped making them user-visible when we set up the whole
> > 'environment group' thing on the basis people should just install the
> > env groups). So you can't install the groups you can see, but you can
> > install the groups you can't see...
> 
> Thanks for the detailed explanation.....
> 
> One last thing, should this situation not be resolved by release date
> it would seem to be something that deserves mention in the release
> notes.

I added it to Common Bugs already.
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