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Fact to detect GUIs

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes I deploy GUI-based packages, e.g. meld, gufw to GUI-based machines. However, on occasion I will test on non-GUI servers, where installing these GUI packages isn’t needed. I would like to skip them.

There seem to be ways to detect whether a GUI is installed (on Linux). With this, a user can skip installing certain operations.

Describe the solution you’d like

A fact to automate GUI detection.

if host.fact.has_gui():
    apt.packages(
        name="Install gui-based packages.",
        packages=[
            "gufw",
            "meld",
            ...
        ]
    )

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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Fizzadarcommented, Oct 21, 2020

Chosen the more explicit route looking for exact binaries - more painful to maintain but should be rock solid; https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra/commit/057c90a9985ce16e9e0e7e42de2f37dffb761969! 1.2 coming up v.shortly!

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bronte2k7commented, Oct 11, 2020

Check installed packages. But it is safer