Bug 238341
Summary: | gcc doesn't show up in package manager browser view | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | hal |
Component: | comps | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | dcantrell, katzj |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-05-22 21:54:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
hal
2007-04-29 16:37:06 UTC
If you choose development-tools, you get gcc, for what it's worth. You get python and perl in the base system. I think the problem here is that we want gcc always when you select the tools, thus it is mandatory. If it's mandatory, it doesn't show up with a checkbox. Perhaps what pirut should do is display the mandatory packages in a non-clickable way, with some indication if you already have said package or not. Jeremy, your thoughts? Showing mandatory packages doesn't necessarily take care of everything, though; what about, eg, deps. There's an open bug about potentially showing mandatory packages in pirut, but I'm still leaning towards not. Definitely not going to change for F7 at this point Right now this is by design, closing this bug. Re-open or add yourself to the RFE about seeing mandatory packages in groups. Not sure if it's more appropriate to continue this here or add to a RFE. If it would be better to move it, could you give a reference to the apppropriate RFE? Whether or not we move it, I really only have a pretty simple scenario in mind. After a default install, gcc isn't there, and when I go to the "obvious" place in the package installer it isn't there either. Since I was new to this and don't really know about mandatory packages, I didn't realize that I'll get gcc if I install most anything in the developer tools section. So I don't know if the answer is to include in the list some of the very high-level things that people might want, like gcc, or to somehow make it more apparent which mandatory packages will get installed automatically. The answer probably isn't to show all the potential dependencies, since there is a lot of clutter there. But it would help to show gcc, for example, with a greyed-out, already-checked checkbox so I know it's there. Anyway, I don't want to beat this to death, but it does seem to be something that could be done a bit better to help out new users. |