On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:03 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 14:59 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 2:50 PM Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, April 2, 2020 1:55:10 PM EDT Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 13:24 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've been doing some testing of F32 and was curious about
something. I
> > > > > have a kickstart file that just installs @core to be a minimal
system.
> > > > > While looking over the resulting system, there are fonts,
wayland, gtk3
> > > > > and others. Is this intentional? The system probably doesn't
have
> > > > > everything that's needs to function as a desktop. Why are
all these
> > > > > installed by @core?
> > > >
> > > > Because you're installing with weak dependencies enabled, and one
of
> > > > them is bringing in gtk3.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the pointer. Investigating that:
> > >
> > > $ rpm --query --recommends gtk3
> > > dconf(x86-64)
> > >
> > > Looking at that
> > >
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dconf/blob/master/f/dconf.spec
> > >
> > > There is a build requires on gtk-doc. But nowhere do I see gtk3 as a
> > > recommends.
> > >
> >
> > You got that backwards. You listed the things that gtk3 has as a Recommends:
> >
> > Try `dnf repoquery --whatrecommends gtk3`
> >
> > java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.6.10-0.fc32.x86_64
> > java-11-openjdk-slowdebug-1:11.0.6.10-0.fc32.x86_64
> > java-latest-openjdk-1:13.0.2.8-1.rolling.fc32.x86_64
> > java-latest-openjdk-slowdebug-1:13.0.2.8-1.rolling.fc32.x86_64
> > solaar-0:1.0.2-0.1.rc1.20200322git563ef0d.fc32.noarch
> >
> >
> > That said, I think gtk3 is always part of the standard installation
> > because it's needed by Anaconda.
>
> The GUI anaconda requirements should be split into anaconda-gui and
> that shouldn't be part of a minimal install. In fact I don't think
> anaconda should be pulled into an @core install at all, offhand.
It shouldn't be listed in @core, it would be pulled in by the bits of
the installer process that needs it.
Right, and it isn't listed in @core. Stephen seems to be saying it's
normal that @core would pull in anaconda somehow, but I don't think it
is.
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