On 09/18/2014 05:27 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
I am not sure bringing back package selection [1] in Anaconda is a step in the right direction. I'd rather have all customization done post-install through GNOME Software and keep the first installation experience as straightforward as possible. In fact, I would like Anaconda to completely hide the software selection spoke when there is nothing optional to choose, as is (was?) the case with Workstation.
We (the team working on the Anaconda UI rewrite) explicitly excluded package-level selection for UX reasons (the way RPM & depsolving works it basically lies to users and can never meet the expectations the UI necessarily has to set) and I think bringing it back is a no-go. If we wanted to build some kind of tool for tweakers that lets you do package level selection and then builds an image, I think that would be the right way to solve that issue. Anaconda is too limited an environment for users to have the information they need to make informed selections and it's also too limited an environment to properly set expectations about the dep-based nature of RPM and how what you select and de-select in the UI doesn't mean the thing you de-selected isn't going to be present....
Would love for the software selection spoke to be completely hidden when there's nothing to choose. We hide it in live install images IIRC.
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