On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/22/2015 01:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> I completely disagree. More custom, more flexibility, in a GUI >> installer, is a trap. It directly leads to unnecessary design work, >> coding work, maintenance work, and bugs. > > > I can remember when custom partitioning let you do whatever you wanted, even > if it was wrong. That's probably not a Good Thing for the average user, but > it would be nice if there were an Expert Mode that turned off the sanity > checks but made you confirm that you knew what you were doing and accepted > the risk that you might create a layout that can't work. No, because with very few exceptions, users file bugs and complain bitterly when their crazy layout doesn't work or blows up the installer. It's not worth it. (Making sure that > if you have a /boot it's big enough and that you haven't specified separate > partitions for directories that have to be on the root partition would be > the only exceptions.) That way, those of us with decades of experience and > highly unusual requirements can do what we need without forcing the average > user to work things out without a safety net. Well you're not going to convince me that highly unusual requirements is a valid reason for someone else to do the monumental amount of work to get a GUI installer to do arbitrary things for what amounts to total edge cases. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
