[Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts/f19] add @basic-desktop to install so basic desktop environment is available

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 25 18:12:25 UTC 2013


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 13:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Dennis Gilmore (ausil at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > > commit 6ae60d47bec0037c28ec158fed7ffd96b352493a
> > > Author: Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
> > > Date:   Mon Jun 24 21:53:30 2013 -0500
> > > 
> > >     add @basic-desktop to install so basic desktop environment is available
> > 
> > We had to make cuts to the DVD for space reasons at beta. Why are we adding
> > a new environment now to the DVD when we're trying to spin RCs? What's the
> > blocker bug?
> 
> It doesn't actually add any extra packages, they're all on the DVD
> already. It just makes the 'basic desktop' option available on the
> package selection screen on DVD installs, which some people like to
> have.
> 
> I'm also not a fan of changes during freeze, but this one at least seems
> to have worked out fine.

Looks like it adds awesome, dwm, ratpoison, xmonad-basic (and any
dependencies not already covered) to the media, and adds another install
choice that is not covered by release criteria to the DVD (albeit one that's
already on the net install.)

Bill


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