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To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com>
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Hello G=C3=A1bor,

> I believe what could be done is to create and extended installer image wi=
th
> the packages need for testing available.
> It could work similarly to how the barebones closure is included right no=
w.
> These images would be quite big, and impractical for anything but testing.
> I believe that having a simple very big image is better than having
> separate smaller ones for testing. This would also allow us to create a
> selection of images with different de/service options for direct download
> if the need arises, by expanding the list of configuration templates, and
> the test image can be simply created by including the closure of all the
> template configs. Wdyt?

Seems fair, that would be a very big image (10GiB only for GNOME), and
it gets duplicated when running installation tests. Better have some
free space :p

In my case, it would mean adding all DE/services to os definition in
"guided-installation-test" I guess.

Ludo, WDYT?

Thanks,

Mathieu