On Sat, 2018-09-22 at 10:26 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On 09/21/2018 06:14 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
...snip...
> The old gnome-packagekit, IIRC, also parsed groups and showed you all
> this stuff.
>
> But...we don't do that any more. anaconda does not expose 'optional'
> packages in any way any more (you can only pick environment groups and
> their supplementary package groups in anaconda, now). GNOME Software
> doesn't either.
There's one other place they are used (although perhaps not much):
dnf group install --with-optional groupname
will install the group and all the optional stuff.
I have no idea if many people use that...
I am betting it's just about zero, because it seems really unlikely
that anyone wants *all* of the optional packages in a group. That's
kinda why they were made optional in the first place, presumably. So I
didn't mention this, though you're right that it technically exists.
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