[Bugs] #620 UNSP: Cannot Erase activities installed in /usr/share/sugar/activities

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#620: Cannot Erase activities installed in /usr/share/sugar/activities
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    Reporter:  wadeb                      |          Owner:  sdz                        
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  closed                     
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  SoaS                       |        Version:  0.84.x                     
    Severity:  Major                      |     Resolution:  wontfix                    
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  SoaS                       
Status_field:  New                        |  
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Comment(by sdz):

 Replying to [comment:4 wadeb]:
 > I'm also really concerned that many non-critical activities are
 installed this way, and thus can never be removed or upgraded.
 >
 > Finance, Typing Turtle, Colors!, etc.

 This is not the case. We're actually NOT installing Finance, Typing Turtle
 and others as RPMs. You can have a look at this page, where we're
 outlining which activities are included and how they get installed:
 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap

 > Would it be possible to install these via .xo instead of by .rpm?

 This is already being done. The goal was to have the fructose activities
 around and install those via RPM (which is being done by selecting the
 sugar-desktop group now) and put some more honey activities as .xo in,
 which is exactly what we're doing. Have a look at the kickstart file,
 specifically the %post --nochroot part here:
 http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/blobs/master/sugar.ks

 > It should be as simple as replacing the 'rpm -i' commands for activities
 in the kickstart with 'wget <url> && unzip <xo file>'

 See above. As a side-note, I plan to include wget on the image, tough, as
 it has been requested several times.

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