On 02/02/2017 07:13 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> 
> wrote:
>> On 02/01/2017 10:34 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What's the advantage here vs. providing a "Python Classroom Lab" install 
>>>> target
>>>> in GNOME Software that allows you to turn any Fedora Workstation 
>>>> installation
>>>> into a Classroom Lab?
>>>>
>>>
>>> GNOME Software can't do that. As far as I know, there's no
>>> way to expose installable groups in GNOME Software. Apper (in KDE) has
>>> some capability for it, but the PackageKit backend (dnf backend) has
>>> no support for it because it was not implemented because GNOME
>>> Software has no support for groups.
>>>
>>
>> Sure it can; you just create a metapackage that Requires/Recommends: all of 
>> the
>> members of the comps group and add AppData XML and a logo to that 
>> metapackage.
> 
> Um... that sounds like a hack to work around the fact that GNOME
> Software doesn't have support for groups.  I'm not sure that
> suggestion is fixing the right problem.
> 

Well, I'm not sure it *can* be solved without a master package, because
something needs to provide AppData and logos.


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