Once upon a time, Seth Nickell snickell@redhat.com said:
- The default packages in the package sets (in the comps file) may not
include any applications that are functional duplicates. In other words, if the user clicks all the package sets in the installer (other than everything), they should not end up with two web browsers or two spreadsheets in the menus. To give a hypothetical example, lets say we shipped Gnumeric as one of the default apps in the "Office" package set. In this case OpenOffice.org Calc should not show up in the menus, even if the openoffice.org package is installed (presuming we install the rest of openoffice by default). One way to address this would be to include a separate "openoffice.org-calc" package that simply installs a .desktop file.
I understand trying to make things simpler, but I also have a problem with this. I will sometimes intentionally install multiple things (like OOo and Gnumeric), with the intention of checking them both out to see which one I like (or does what I want) better. I install both from the regular install menu in anaconda; with your rule above, I wouldn't end up with both in the desktop menus that way.