Le samedi 22 septembre 2018 à 11:29 -0700, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> 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.

Why not? Some of the groups are pretty focused. You install defaults for
groups you need, but do not use heavily, and the full optional package
for things you are really interested in.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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