environment group 'KDE Plasma Workspaces'

Richard Ryniker ryniker at alum.mit.edu
Mon Sep 16 20:41:29 UTC 2013


I still find the (maybe my own peculiar) F20 situation confusing.  For example:

  [root at lenovo ryniker]# yum -v group install kde-desktop-environment
  Not loading "blacklist" plugin, as it is disabled
  Loading "langpacks" plugin
  Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin
  Not loading "whiteout" plugin, as it is disabled
  Adding en to language list
  Config time: 0.419
  Yum version: 3.4.3
  rpmdb time: 0.000
  Setting up Package Sacks
  pkgsack time: 0.109
  group time: 0.266
  Skipping group core from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group multimedia from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group input-methods from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group guest-desktop-agents from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group base-x from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group fonts from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group hardware-support from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group dial-up from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group admin-tools from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group printing from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group kde-desktop from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Skipping group standard from environment kde-desktop-environment
  Warning: environment kde-desktop-environment does not exist.
  No packages in any requested group available to install or update
  [root at lenovo ryniker]# 

Yum is "Skipping group core from environment kde-desktop-environment"
perhaps because this group is already installed, but why complain at
the end "Warning: environment kde-desktop-environment does not exist."?
Yum seems to have found a dozen groups that comprise the environment
kde-desktop-environment.

I display information about the group kde-desktop and see:

  [root at lenovo ryniker]# yum -v group info kde-desktop
  Not loading "blacklist" plugin, as it is disabled
  Loading "langpacks" plugin
  Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin
  Not loading "whiteout" plugin, as it is disabled
  Adding en to language list
  Config time: 0.418
  Yum version: 3.4.3
  Setting up Package Sacks
  pkgsack time: 0.109
  group time: 0.264

  Group: KDE
   Group-Id: kde-desktop
  rpmdb time: 0.000
   Description: The KDE Plasma Workspaces, a highly-configurable graphical user interface which includes a panel, desktop, system icons and desktop widgets, and many powerful KDE applications.
   Mandatory Packages:
     =akonadi-1.10.2-1.fc20.i686                                  fedora          
     =akonadi-1.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64                                @fedora         
     =akonadi-mysql-1.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64                          @fedora         
     =apper-0.8.1-1.fc20.x86_64                                   @fedora         
     =appmenu-qt-0.2.6-4.fc20.i686                                fedora          
     =appmenu-qt-0.2.6-4.fc20.x86_64                              @fedora         
     =ark-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                    @fedora         
     =bluedevil-2.0.0-0.1.20130621.fc20.i686                      fedora          
     =bluedevil-2.0.0-0.1.20130621.fc20.x86_64                    @fedora         
     =cagibi-0.2.0-6.fc20.x86_64                                  @fedora         
      cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-2.fc20.x86_64                          @anaconda       
      firewall-config-0.3.4-1.fc20.noarch                         @anaconda       
     =gwenview-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                               @fedora         
     =initial-setup-0.3.8-1.fc20.noarch                           @updates-testing
     =kamera-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                 @fedora         
     =kamoso-2.0.2-12.fc20.x86_64                                 @fedora         
     =kcalc-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                  @fedora         
     =kcharselect-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                            @fedora         
     =kcm-gtk-0.5.3-14.fc20.x86_64                                @fedora         
     =kcm_touchpad-0.3.1-10.fc20.x86_64                           @fedora         
     =kcolorchooser-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                          @fedora         
     =kde-baseapps-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                           @fedora         
     =kde-plasma-nm-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.i686                           updates-testing 
     =kde-plasma-nm-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64                         @updates-testing
     =kde-plasma-nm-l2tp-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64                    @updates-testing
     =kde-plasma-nm-openconnect-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64             @updates-testing
     =kde-plasma-nm-openswan-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64                @updates-testing
     =kde-plasma-nm-openvpn-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64                 @updates-testing
     =kde-plasma-nm-pptp-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64                    @updates-testing
     =kde-plasma-nm-vpnc-0.9.3.0-6.fc20.x86_64                    @updates-testing
     =kde-print-manager-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                      @fedora         
     =kde-runtime-4.11.0-1.fc20.i686                              fedora          
     =kde-runtime-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                            @fedora         
     =kde-settings-pulseaudio-20-1.fc20.noarch                    @updates-testing
     =kde-workspace-4.11.0-4.fc20.x86_64                          @fedora         
     =1:kdeaccessibility-4.11.0-1.fc20.noarch                     @fedora         
     =6:kdegames-minimal-4.11.0-1.fc20.noarch                     @fedora         
     =kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64            @fedora         
     =kdegraphics-thumbnailers-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64               @fedora         
     =6:kdelibs-4.11.0-2.fc20.i686                                fedora          
     =6:kdelibs-4.11.0-2.fc20.x86_64                              @fedora         
     -kdenetwork-kdnssd
     -kdenetwork-kget
     =7:kdepim-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                               @fedora         
     =kdeplasma-addons-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                       @fedora         
     =kgpg-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                   @fedora         
     =kipi-plugins-3.4.0-1.fc20.x86_64                            @updates-testing
     =kmix-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                   @fedora         
     =konsole-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                @fedora         
     =kruler-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                 @fedora         
     =1:kscreen-1.0.1-1.fc20.x86_64                               @fedora         
     =ksnapshot-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                              @fedora         
     =ksshaskpass-0.5.3-6.fc20.x86_64                             @fedora         
     =ksysguard-4.11.0-4.fc20.x86_64                              @fedora         
     =kwallet-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                @fedora         
     =kwebkitpart-1.3.2-4.fc20.x86_64                             @fedora         
     =kwrite-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                 @fedora         
     =okular-4.11.0-1.fc20.x86_64                                 @fedora         
     =oxygen-gtk-1.2.0-5.fc20.noarch                              @fedora         
     =2:phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.3-2.fc20.i686                fedora          
     =2:phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.3-2.fc20.x86_64              @fedora         
     =plasma-scriptengine-python-4.11.0-4.fc20.x86_64             @fedora         
     =sddm-0.2.0-0.6.20130821gite707e229.fc20.x86_64              @updates-testing
     =system-config-date-1.10.6-1.fc20.noarch                     @fedora         
     =system-config-services-0.101.10-2.fc20.noarch               @fedora         
     =system-config-users-1.3.5-1.fc20.noarch                     @fedora         
     =xsettings-kde-0.12.3-6.fc20.x86_64                          @fedora         
     =xterm-295-2.fc20.x86_64                                     @fedora         
   Conditional Packages:
      1:libreoffice-kde-4.1.2.1-1.fc20.x86_64                     @updates-testing
      pinentry-qt-0.8.1-11.fc20.x86_64                            @fedora         
  [root at lenovo ryniker]# 

There appear to be two "Mandatory Packages" named kdenetwork-kdnssd and
kdenetwork-kget that do not exist.  For example:

  [root at lenovo ryniker]# yum info kdenetwork-kdnssd
  Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
  Error: No matching Packages to list
  [root at lenovo ryniker]#

If it is mandatory, it has to exist, right?

User confusion?  Bug?  I wish Seth Vidal was still with us. Things like
this make life with alpha interesting.  However confused yum (and I) may
be, I nevertheless login to this system with a functional KDE session.


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