On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 01:34:43PM +0100, Jiri Konecny wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We (anaconda team) are considering discontinuation of the Anaconda's Initial > Setup[0] tool, which is not related to Gnome Initial Setup. Here is a list > of the reasons: > > * The relationship between the installer and the Initial Setup is very > fragile. It is easy to break the Initial Setup by changes in the installer > or break the installer while we are trying to fix the support for the > Initial Setup. The shared code is complex as a result and it complicates > development and maintenance of both projects. > > * As we had higher priority items to work on, the codebase is not in an > ideal state and the upstream repository doesn't even have a proper automated > CI. Fixing all these issues would take a lot of our resources that we would > like to spent on improving the installer instead. > > * The Initial Setup tool is unnecessarily complicated. Since it shares code > with the installer, it has to adapt to many limitations and requirements of > the installation environment. It doesn't use the full potential of the > installed system, because the installer can't. It postpones all actions > until the end of the configuration, because the installer has to. It doesn't > offer the best user experience for the first boot configuration, because it > is designed to reuse parts of an installer. It drags Anaconda into the > installed systems. > > * There are already alternatives: Gnome Initial Setup, systemd-firstboot, > and preparation for KDE solution of initial setup. So the ecosystem changed > from the time when Initial Setup was introduced. We think that these > alternatives are able to give you a better solution. > > > Before taking any action, we would like to understand your use-cases to find > out how we can help you to make the transition smoother and also to find out > how much time you would need for migration. > > Is Anaconda Initial Setup important for your project or workflow? What > functionality is absolutely necessary for you? Do you use the text mode or > the graphical mode? Are you aware of any alternatives? Is there anything > that would prevent you from migrating to one of the proposed alternatives? > Also please feel free to share this mail to any relevant groups. > > [0]: https://github.com/rhinstaller/initial-setup Hi, I can provide a bit of perspective from a downstream distribution of Fedora - Qubes OS. We use XFCE as the primary desktop environment, and as far as I'm aware, there is no equivalent of Gnome Initial Setup there. Furthermore, we have a Qubes-specific initial-setup addon that finishes installation steps that would be quite complicated to perform during anaconda stage. Those steps are basically starting a bunch of VMs, which requires a few system services running (including xenstored, libvirt daemon and few others) and it's very annoying and fragile to do that from inside chroot. So, we do have a use case for Initial Setup. -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab
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