From https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/242: "Anaconda is only particularly useful to install Fedora on the system, but because we install a live image to disk, we wind up having Anaconda installed on the system as well, even though it's completely useless afterward. We should come up with a way to remove Anaconda as part of successful installation of Fedora." The Fedora Workstation Working Group has explored options for how to do this. Having Anaconda do the removal itself would have a number of advantages - would it be possible? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Workstation using Anaconda 2. Run `dnf info anaconda` Actual Results: The Anaconda package is installed. Expected Results: Anaconda not to be installed.
Hi Allan, it's unfortunate that the Neal's proposal was dropped, I was hoping it will solve this long-standing issue. So a bit of history, we have this requirement a really long time now. The issue with that is to do this a clean way, we need to have two types of payload which will run in different times. That was pretty hard to achieve with the old code base (before Anaconda modularization). Now, the situation is a bit better but it's still not an easy task to do. It wasn't a priority so far because only the Live media would benefit from this (which is just a subset of what Anaconda supports and not used on RHEL/CentOS). I agree with you, that it should be done and honestly, I would like to implement it. Unfortunately, it's pretty low on our priority list for Anaconda, so I can't promise any specific target when Anaconda is able to introduce this.