Re: What should we do about "shopping list" groups in comps?
On Wed, 2023-02-01 at 08:59 +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 14:39:27 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> snip
> neuron-modelling-simulators
We only added this to allow users do use a groupinstall to install all
their modelling related tools in one go. It isn't intended for use in
anaconda. So, happy to remove it, but is there another way of allowing
users to pull in all these packages at once? Should we use a meta
package instead of a comps group (or have I misunderstood how dnf
package groups work)?
I'd say you've misunderstood how comps groups work, because all the
packages are tagged as optional, which means people need to use an
obscure option to a kickstart or dnf to install them. If you indeed
want a normal 'dnf groupinstall neuron-modelling-simulators' or
'@neuron-modelling-simulators' in a kickstart to install all the
packages, they should be set to 'default' or 'mandatory', not
'optional'. The difference between 'default' and 'mandatory' is
that if
a package is listed as 'mandatory', it *must* remain installed for dnf
to consider the group as 'installed'. If it's listed as 'default', it
will be installed by default when the group is, but can be removed
without the group being considered to have been removed.
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