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.
josh