On 11/08/2012 12:19 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthew Garrett (mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
Patches that cleanly decouple Anaconda from the entire software stack
that it runs on top of would probably be received with open arms, but
nobody who works on it has any idea how to implement them.
In fact, this is what has been done in anaconda over the past couple of
releases - Anaconda migrated from having its own boot and init
infrastructure to using system-provided items such as dracut and systemd.
But that's complicated work, and while you're doing that migration, you're
doing a lot of arbitration as to what bits are in generic dracut, what
bits are in generic systemd, and what bits remain in anaconda. And during
that process, you are *very* tied to the version of the underlying system,
until the work is fully complete and there is a defined separation of
features into each layer.
This, incidentally, also is why running the F17 installer on F19 isn't
practical.
Bill
Not to mention that while making this migration and after, when system
tools /change their api/ or /change their command line arguments/ it
means that the installer is suddenly broken again.
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