On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 13:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Chris Lumens (clumens@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > - downloads updates in parallel too > > > > Package updates? > > 1) Given that it's using yum, downloading multiple things in parallel > would need to be fixed there. > 2) If it means downloading packages in the background while it does > other tasks, given that package selection is the final task in the > current workflow, it would require reordering the workflow to be > beneficial. (Which becomes a memory usage tradeoff.) I believe the Ubuntu installer under discussion is the live installer. Like Fedora, there is no package selection involved there. Ubuntu gains considerable simplicity by having a separate installer app for live images and making that its default installer - I'm no expert, but I think the 'advanced' installer you can use for network installs and custom package selection and LVM and RAID and all that stuff is essentially Debian's installer, and is a completely different experience to the Ubuntu installer. So, we could follow this same path and make an anaconda-live which would be a considerably simplified subset of anaconda and could gain in parallelization and simplification and stuff, but we'd be duplicating a lot of effort then and we'd have no handy 'upstream' installer to fall back on for more complex cases, as Ubuntu does. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
