"Basic X Window System" option present in smoke12 netinst, missing on DVD

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jan 2 23:28:20 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 14:02 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Andre Robatino (robatino at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > Starting with smoke12 (
> > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/qa/20121221_f18-smoke12/ ), the Basic X
> > option under Software Selection is missing on the DVD, though it's still present
> > on the netinst. The "Cinnamon Desktop" and "MATE Desktop" options are also
> > missing on the DVD, and this is probably in order to fix
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878985 (not enough space on the DVD
> > to include them). But all of the options under Basic X appear to actually be on
> > the DVD, in which case there's no reason to include it on one and not the other.
> > 
> > Smoke12 includes the latest pungi-2.13-1.fc18 and the changelog mentions
> > 
> > * Fri Dec 21 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.13-1 - strip groups from
> > comps not listed in the kickstart
> > 
> > So is the missing Basic X on the DVD intentional, or a bug?
> 
> Intentional. Basic X Window environment in software selection includes the
> 'basic-x-window-desktop' group, which is *not* on the DVD. So the
> environment isn't shown.

Maybe we should have it on there, then?
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