What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 07:40 -0600, Pete Travis wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2014 8:27 PM, "Dan Mashal" <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
> wrote:
> > > My point is that it must ALSO be possible to install the preferred
> desktop
> > > directly, without installing GNOME first.
> >
> >
> > Exactly this.
> >
> > Installing MATE from the spin is not exactly the same thing as
> > installing it from the netinstall or the DVD.
> >
> > The spin does not include the same packages as the DVD and the
> > netinstall due to size constraints.
> >
> > If we can keep the netinstall, which allows people to do exactly this,
> > then I really could careless what happens with workstation (and I'm
> > also a happy camper, as I imagine you and many others would be too).
> >
> > Dan
> > --
> 
> Can this difference be "fixed" with a mate-firstboot ui, ie "these
> additional applications are recommended for use with MATE, would you like
> to check off the ones that interest you and install them ?"

Hum. This is actually kind of an interesting idea.

If we could somehow encode the selected groups in the live image for
anaconda to pass on to the installed system, the post-install tool could
becomes fairly trivial and generic. All it has to do really is a
'yum/dnf groupinstall @installed_group_a @installed_group_b etc etc',
and I think that should fill in any available 'missing packages' from
the repositories, for a live or DVD install.
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