Hi all,
I guess I just wanted to see it for myself. I downloaded the mailing
list archives for 2013, 2012 and 2011. There were only 2 posts
concerning the DVD installer doing only 1 desktop environment. Of
course, my search was with the keyword - "[Dd]esktop", so it is likely
that I may have missed something.
I found 1 post by Mirek (June 15, 2012) that talks of InitialExperience
being the reason we cannot have multiple desktops installed with
anaconda. Another by David Cantrell (June 13, 2012) talks of Chris
Lumens favouring a spins selector style for desktop selections.
Are there any other reasons, or did I cover it all? Plus, there was some
bit there that talked of the installer being able to install every
desktop on the media. I would have assumed that it means all, rather
than any one.
In any case, the biggest shortcoming (in my opinion) of having a DVD
installer that can only install 1 desktop at install time is the waste
of network bandwidth. If I download 4 GB or so, I would like to see it
fully usable at install time. Otherwise, I would have taken a spin and
pulled it other stuff as I required.
If multiple spins have conflicting requirements (I am guessing GNOME 3,
Mate, Cinnamon), can't we just have one of those in the DVD and others
via the repo?
Is the dev-team willing to re-think on the multiple-desktop installation
possibility in light of some recent criticisms?
1.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/23/230255/alan-cox-fedora-18-the-worst-red-hat-distro-switches-to-ubuntu
2.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/22/010220/fedora-18-installer-counterintuitive-and-confusing
Or is that just wishful thinking?
Unlike other people, I seem to have negative feedback only about the
installer; the distribution works fine for me. Unlike other people, I
would much rather try and influence the development rather than jump
ship to SUSE/Ubuntu. I must say the installer for SUSE is rather
polished and has been so for quite a while now.
Two sore points about the current installer were
1. Confusion in selecting my pre-formatted logical volumes for use in
Fedora (I have multi-boot for Fedora/RHEL/SUSE).
2. Inability to select all the desktops available on DVD during install
time.
My intention is not to flame anyone. I am just trying to see a better
installer.
Nandan
On 02/11/2013 10:36 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On 02/11/2013 02:21 AM, Nandan Bhat wrote:
Can anyone point me in the direction (link/date) when the discussion
about locking down DVD install options for desktop environments got
discussed in this mailing list?
Alternatively, if this is not the right place for such stuff, please be
kind to point me over to the correct list/forum.
This was discussed pretty widely in a variety of places, including here,
FUDcon (Tempe & Blacksburg), and Planet Fedora.
Look at the " Bill's patch for software selection + comps metadata"
thread towards the end of July 2012 for some discussion on this list,
there's probably other threads too but that was the first one I saw in
my mail client.
~m
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