On 02/02/2017 07:13 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2017 10:34 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the advantage here vs. providing a "Python Classroom
Lab" install target
>>> in GNOME Software that allows you to turn any Fedora Workstation
installation
>>> into a Classroom Lab?
>>>
>>
>> GNOME Software can't do that. As far as I know, there's no
>> way to expose installable groups in GNOME Software. Apper (in KDE) has
>> some capability for it, but the PackageKit backend (dnf backend) has
>> no support for it because it was not implemented because GNOME
>> Software has no support for groups.
>>
>
> Sure it can; you just create a metapackage that Requires/Recommends: all of the
> members of the comps group and add AppData XML and a logo to that metapackage.
Um... that sounds like a hack to work around the fact that GNOME
Software doesn't have support for groups. I'm not sure that
suggestion is fixing the right problem.
Well, I'm not sure it *can* be solved without a master package, because
something needs to provide AppData and logos.