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If you do a current F24 network install and go to Software Selection, you'll see *both* "Minimal Install" and "Fedora Custom Operating System" listed in the available environments. These are the 'minimal-environment' and 'custom-environment' groups from comps, and they're currently identical. Having both visible in the installer is probably quite confusing. (The Server DVD doesn't have this problem as for DVD media the list of environments that show up on the Software Selection screen is specified by the pungi-fedora config, but network install images will show all environments present in the remote repo's comps regardless of what the pungi-fedora config says).
Right, so my intent when I added that was to satisfy the Server WG decision (hopefully) without introducing any unintended consequences for other spins. The fact that they are identical today is meant to be temporary; by creating a new one I hoped that this could be properly curated, ideally by the forthcoming Modularity WG (this environment would then be one representation of the "base module" or whatever we end up calling it). "Fedora Custom Operating System" is a more descriptive term for an installation built atop the base module than calling it "minimal", which is and always was misleading.
"The fact that they are identical today is meant to be temporary" Well sure, but even if you curate 'Custom Operating System' into something awesome, is there any reason to keep 'Minimal Install' at that point?
(In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #2) > "The fact that they are identical today is meant to be temporary" > > Well sure, but even if you curate 'Custom Operating System' into something > awesome, is there any reason to keep 'Minimal Install' at that point? In the back of my mind, I have an idea of "Fedora Custom Operating System" being essentially the curated core module and "Minimal Install" being literally "only the packages necessary to get to single-user mode". But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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As the dupe points out, this is *still* true. Since there doesn't seem to be in any danger of custom-environment being curated into something awesome any day soon, maybe we can make it hidden?
Hmm, actually, not sure 'not visible' is a thing for env groups. So we might have to entirely remove one to get rid of it, which I guess could break someone's kickstarts. We'd probably have to do it only for F38 and mention it in the docs.
Honestly, if we want to get rid of one, I honestly think "minimal" (which... isn't) should be the one to go. The word "minimal" is arguably too attractive. "Fedora Custom Operating System" is more descriptive of what they are getting: a frankensetup of your own making.
I don't mind which goes, it'd just be nice if one of them did.
Since we're moving comps bugs to https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/issues , if we want to continue the conversation, I suggest opening an issue there.