> One that Chris Lumens is most interested in removing is our current > package selection interface. Changing that to what we had been > calling a "spin selector" but is essentially just canned > installations for Desktop, Development, and so on. Yes, I'm interested in doing something to group/package selection. At the most basic level, I'd like to just remove the individual package selection dialogs and only allow for group selection. At some higher level, perhaps we can completely rethink how we do this. One idea there was the spin selector, but it always gets mired in the fact that spins aren't really all that well defined. > An idea that I thought would be interesting would be to allow people > to do either the spin selection thing -or- provide a kickstart file > (via the network, via a USB flash drive, etc) that we then use the > %packages section from. To me that seems like we could handle the > cases where people want the finegrained package control, but we've > reduced the installer to having as simple of an interface as > possible while still giving usable installed systems. Personally, spin selector always seemed the nicest to me. But I'm sure you've heard the problems with it in the past. A kickstart file selector might be an interesting way of providing canned package selections, and we wouldn't even need to expose to the user that they were picking kickstart files. This is kind of tied up with spin selector in that spin livecds are defined with a kickstart file. If only they didn't do such ridiculous stuff in the scripts, we might just be able to take their %package sections. Above all, we wouldn't want anaconda to own these kickstart files. > Another thing worth considering is a location screen over the time > zone screen. This was filed as an RFE initially and I moved it to > the anaconda feature planning wiki today: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/LocationQuestion Yes, we've talked about doing this kind of thing before and I think it's a good idea. - Chris _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
