On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 20:00 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> *) How do I differentiate between what is part of the
> product and what is not and what is the effect on upgrades?
>
I'm not sure what you mean here. From the upgrade tools'
perspectives, a package is a package.
Sure but if we say these are the sets of the packages that we are
going to focus on for say Fedora Workstation or Fedora Server and
assuming not all of them are installed by default and I want to stay
within the borders of what that particular product considers their
focus, I would want to quickly list packages that are not part of the
product before upgrading. This could matter even more when say Fedora
Server has a different lifecycle from the rest of the packages. Does
that make sense?
Unfortunately, that's a much harder task than it sounds (and also not
terribly useful). Just because we have a set of software that defines
the PLATFORM does not somehow make the other packages that you choose to
install less interesting. (Quite the opposite, really. The platform is
only interesting insofar as it allows you to run things atop it.)