Re: Anaconda wishlist

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On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 13:05 -0400, Eric Griffith wrote:
> 
> The one that comes to mind is... if you're an "Administrator" then 
> you
> have the ability to use grub2-mkconfig but... you have to blindly
> specify an output file on an EFI system. On my system only root can
> look inside /boot/EFI/ (not modify mind you, just LOOK) which means 
> if
> i'm under my user account and decide to change a grub parameter I 
> have
> to either blindly remember what the path is, or take the time to swap
> to root and then swap back just for the sake of updating the boot
> config.

I think 'sudo -i' does what you want.

> *If user account creation gets removed then gnome-initial-setup needs
> to trigger under KDE, XFCE, and LXDE spins as well, or they need to
> get appropriate first-time-setup utilities as well.

I don't suggest any of these changes for other products or spins: that
would probably be a nonstarter. Just for Workstation.

> *I already said I thought hub-and-spoke was a bad idea. Installer
> starts --> Keyboard and Language selection ---> Disk partitioning -->
> User Creation ---> Done. Keep an expert button for software selection
> and non-default network config if we really want to keep those in. 


Note that we don't have software selection on the live image and never
have.

> Disk layout needs some work, seriously. It might have been a bug but
> when I installed it on my laptop i couldn't get it to automatically
> create btrfs partitions + encrypted volumes. I spent an easy
> 30minutes+ fighting with Anaconda and at the end of it I threw in the
> towel and just opted for ext4 + encryption because thats what I could
> get it to show me... in the end what I was told I was gonna get (ext4
> + encrypted, possibly LVM in there too) and what I GOT (btrfs +
> encrypted... which is what I wanted anyway, but the installer told me
> I wasn't gonna get it) were very different.

Ouch, that really needs to never happen. :(
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