[Libosinfo] [[PATCH v2] 3/5] install-script, rhel: Make it work for 'Server' variant

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Dec 5 12:04:22 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 07:48:43PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> Apparently there is neither office suite nor 'internet-applications'
>> package group on (at least the first) 'Server' variant ISO and they are
>> not exactly needed by default on workstation/client either. User can
>> easily install them later if needed.
>
> Is a web browser installed by default without 'internet-applications'? (I
> assume it's part of the default desktop installation, not in an additional
> group?)

There is '@internet-browser' right under the removed
'internet-applications' line.

> For what it's worth, the whole point of express installations is that the
> user does not have to "easily install XXX later if needed",

I agree but currently there is no way to identify different variants
of RHEL6 from ISO[1] so even if we were able to do different things
based on the media variant in the script, its still not going to work
unfortunately. :(

> so this is not
> a very good argument in general for removing stuff.

Not at all saying this is ideal but if there is any short-term
alternative to fixing the scripts for Server variant, I'm all years.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035039




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