f10 groupinstall KDE

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> kde-desktop isn't a package. It is the groupid.
>> 
>> There are groupnames - what you see when you run grouplist
>> and there are groupids - how yum and anaconda refer to groups internally.
>> 
>> you can use either to install a group.
>
> But is common practice that exactly because of these problems with 
> localization and stability then userfriendly names (titles) shouldn't be used 
> identifiers.
>
> Showing and clicking titles in a GUI and not showing identifiers is a good 
> idea.
>
> But on the commandline it would be nice if yum grouplist also showed 
> identifiers, and it should be recommended to always use these.
>
> IMHO ;-)
>

That makes no sense to me. If there is a localized name it makes sense 
that the user can use the localized name. That way they don't have to 
search for letters they can't quite understand.

-sv