On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Chris Lumens <clumens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On the functional level: what if someone somewhere is using it and >> will scream when the release doesn't support it? > > Yes, someone will probably be unhappy with these changes. I'm torn on > whether these should go in RHEL6 or not. On the one hand, people could > be relying on them. On the other hand, they really don't work. We also > have alternatives. I actually am less concerned about people relying on them at this point; they used to get some occasional requests/reports, but nothing in many years > Virt seems to have basically replaced --test, and in fact does a better > job because you'll be testing the exact same code path. Mostly, yes. There are still cases it's faster/easier to just test out how a screen looks with --test, but I suspect the arcane incantations to make that work are largely unknown and not understood now so I won't cry too much I guess > mock has largely taken over for --rootPath, at least for package > installation. It can't do all the things that anaconda does as far as > customization, though. livecd-creator can deal with most of it, though. --rootPath was really most useful for attaching a debugger to the package installation path in times long gone past - Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
