Description of problem: In the Desktop spin we still have choices for KDE (which will install im-chooser and desktop printing), XFCE, Engineering and Scientific, development, virtualization (without virt-manager!), all of Servers... It's just an awful user experience at the moment - we offer them all these choices that do nothing. Not sure how to quickly fix this, though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20070126 desktop spin
Anaconda is supposed to not show catagories/groups that have no available packages. In some cases, like KDE, there is one or two packages in that group that are also in the GNOME group, so KDE is "available". In other cases, anaconda just isn't hiding it like it is supposed to, or so thats my theory. We need to make some more generic groups, or move things out of gnome/kde and into base-x which they both need, or something like that.
So virtualization we're getting because we include kernel-xen (so that you can run Desktop under xen). We should just add virt-manager to the desktop, especially as it grows qemu support. We get Development, because it includes the development-tools group, which as binutils listed in it, and we get binutils because anaconda-runtime requires /usr/bin/strip. So, I think we might be able to drop anaconda-runtime (and anaconda) from the manifest. The stuff we need that those requires could be listed or pulled in on their own somehow. We also get it for gdb, which bug-buddy hauls in. Make is there because of nss_db, pkgconfig is there for a LOT of packages (anything with a .pc file requires pkgconfig for the directory ownership issue), I could go on a bit here... :/ I suspec that many of these that pop up are because we have one or two things that are show up in other groups that we have in our manifest or getting pulled in via deps. *sigh*
Created attachment 146740 [details] comps filtering As sent in mail, here's a different solution - filter comps based on a short filter file, that excludes certain groups/categories you don't want to see. This allows you to include one or two things from development in your manifest without actually showing the group.
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We no longer have a 'desktop' spin, so this bug doesn't really matter anymore.